EXTENSION AND ECONOMIC FACTORS AFFECTING ADOPTION OF IMPROVED AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES IN SINAI PENINSULA العوامل الاقتصادية والارشادية المؤثرة على تبنى الممارسات الزراعية المحسنة فى شبه جزيرة سيناء | ||
| Journal of Agricultural Economics and Social Sciences | ||
| Article 24, Volume 6, Issue 12, December 2015, Pages 2385-2393 PDF (204.7 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/jaess.2015.42020 | ||
| Authors | ||
| أحمد السيد1; سهى الديب2; إبراهيم عمر3 | ||
| 1قسم الارشاد الزراعى- شعبة الدراسات الاقتصادية والاجتماعية – مرکز بحوث الصحراء – جمهورية مصر العربية | ||
| 2قسم االدرسات الاقتصادية– شعبة الدراسات الاقتصادية والاجتماعية – مرکز بحوث الصحراء –جمهورية مصر العربية | ||
| 3قسم الاقتصاد – کلية الزراعة – جامعة الزقازيق – جمهورية مصر العربية | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The research aimed to identify and analyze the socio-economic characteristics of Sahl El Tina selected farmers, to determine the status of selected improved agricultural practices adoption by selected farmers within their farming systems, and to estimate the factors that affect farm households’ decisions to adopt selected improved agricultural practices. The research employed surveyed data of 150 farmers, The analytical tools were used statistical treatments such as percentages, means, and logistic regression analysis were applied to the data, The results of a logistic regression analysis showed that age of household head, education of household head, farmer ‘owns’ plots with any recommended practice, Household income, Farmer heard of improved practices, households’ access to public extension services, households’ access to Sahl El Tina extension services, farmer training, perception on improved practices influence on improved practices adoption at the 1% level, the number of information sources was significant at the 5% level . | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Adoption; improved agricultural practices; logictic regression analysis | ||
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