Behavior of Anise farmers in Assiut Governorate | ||
| Assiut Journal of Agricultural Sciences | ||
| Volume 55, Issue 3, July 2024, Pages 352-374 PDF (1.27 M) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ajas.2024.286447.1358 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Mohamed Fathy Ismail Abdelhalim* ; Mohammed Sayed Ali Ibrahim | ||
| Department of Agricultural Extension & Rural Sociology, Faculty of Agriculture, Al-Azhar University, Assiut Branch, Assiut, Egypt. | ||
| Abstract | ||
| This research aims to identify the behavior of anise farmers in Assiut Governorate; by identifying the knowledge, attitude, practices of the respondents related to the anise crop, identify the obstacles facing the anise respondents, identify the proposals to overcome them from their point of view, and to identify the nature of the correlation between the independent variables of the respondents, their knowledge, attitudes, practices related to the anise crop. This research was conducted on a simple random sample of 205 respondents in four villages in Assiut Governorate. The data was collected using questionnaire by a personal interview during the months of February and March 2024. Frequencies, percentages, mode, weighted average, graphs, and Spearman's were used to analyses the data and present the results, using Excel and SPSS. The results showed that the majority of the respondents (57.0%) had level of knowledge was high, their attitudes was neutral (56.1%), and the level of their practices related to the anise crop was moderate (75.1%). The most important obstacles facing the anise respondents were: High prices of chemical fertilizers in the markets, low agricultural extension services provided to farmers, high prices of seed. The most important suggestions of the respondents to overcome these obstacles were: Providing chemical fertilizers, seeds in agricultural associations to be from a reliable source, opening outlets to market anise, providing change agents in agricultural associations, and were significant correlations between some of the independent variables of the respondents, their attitudes, knowledge, and practices related to the anise crop. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Behavior; knowledge; attitude; practice; Anise | ||
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