Awareness of Tomato Crop Farmers with Adapting Practices to Climate Changes in Somesta District - Bani Sweif Governorate | ||||
| Scientific Journal of Agricultural Sciences | ||||
| Article 30, Volume 4, Issue 1, June 2022, Page 363-377 PDF (847.04 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/sjas.2022.122867.1196 | ||||
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| Author | ||||
Rabie Sayed 
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| Faculty of Agriculture in Cairo – Al Azhar University | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| The research aimed to determine the knowledge degree of the respondents about the manifestations of climate changes and their effects on the tomato crop, determine their knowledge and implementation degree of adaptation practices to climate changes, identify their sources of information about them, as well as to identify the problems they face when implementing these practices, and to determine the relationship between the respondents' knowledge and implementation degree of adaptation practices to climate changes and the studied independent variables. This research was conducted in the Somesta district on a sample of 201 farmers, who were selected in a systematic random method from the lists of tomato farmers in Somesta Agricultural Department, data were collected using a questionnaire form prepared for this purpose, data were collected during the month of January 2022; frequencies, presentation of percentages, weighted average, simple correlation coefficient, and chi-square, were used for through the program SPSS. The most important results were: 1- 48.8% of the respondents have an average qualification, 52% have a medium level of tendency towards change 2- 63% of the respondents have an average level of knowledge of climate change adaptation practices, and 47% of the level of their implementation of these is average 3- The most important sources of respondents’ information on climate change adaptation practices (experienced neighbors with a weighted average of 2.14 | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Tomato Crop; Climate Changes; Bani Sweif Governorate | ||||
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