Rural Women's Behavior towards Food Safety and Quality at Damanhour District, Beheira Governorate
Ghaly, S., Mahmoud, A., Shahin, O. (2022). Rural Women's Behavior towards Food Safety and Quality at Damanhour District, Beheira Governorate. EKB Journal Management System, 43(4), 1233-1254. doi: 10.21608/asejaiqjsae.2022.268006
Salwa Ghaly; Ali Mahmoud; Olfat Shaban Shahin. "Rural Women's Behavior towards Food Safety and Quality at Damanhour District, Beheira Governorate". EKB Journal Management System, 43, 4, 2022, 1233-1254. doi: 10.21608/asejaiqjsae.2022.268006
Ghaly, S., Mahmoud, A., Shahin, O. (2022). 'Rural Women's Behavior towards Food Safety and Quality at Damanhour District, Beheira Governorate', EKB Journal Management System, 43(4), pp. 1233-1254. doi: 10.21608/asejaiqjsae.2022.268006
Ghaly, S., Mahmoud, A., Shahin, O. Rural Women's Behavior towards Food Safety and Quality at Damanhour District, Beheira Governorate. EKB Journal Management System, 2022; 43(4): 1233-1254. doi: 10.21608/asejaiqjsae.2022.268006

Rural Women's Behavior towards Food Safety and Quality at Damanhour District, Beheira Governorate

Alexandria Science Exchange Journal
Article 17, Volume 43, Issue 4, December 2022, Page 1233-1254  XML PDF (687.82 K)
Document Type: Original Article
DOI: 10.21608/asejaiqjsae.2022.268006
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Authors
Salwa Ghaly email 1; Ali Mahmoud email 2; Olfat Shaban Shahin email 3
1Agriculture extension Department, Damanhour university
2Agriculture extension Department, Damanhour University
3Agricultural extension, Faculty of Agriculture, Damanhour university
Abstract
The research aimed to identify the behavior of rural women towards food safety and quality at Damanhour Distrct, the simple random sample amounted to 240 respondents, representing 5% of the total. The data were collected through a personal interview by questionnaire. The most important results were: 47.9% of the respondents have a low and medium total level of knowledge of food safety and quality, and 59.5% of them have a low and medium level of implementation of those practices, 52.1% have a negative and neutral attitude towards these practices, 68.3% believe that they have not been previously infected with Covid 19, and 49.2% have not taken the vaccine for Covid 19, the All agreed on the availability of the vaccine, 35% of the respondents have a low and medium level of knowledge of practices related to food safety and quality under Covid 19, and 50.8% have a low and medium level of implementation of those practices. Also, five independent variables together explain 65.4% of the total variance in the respondents’ knowledge of practices related to food safety and quality, four independent variables together explain about 62.3% of the total variance in the implementation of practices related to food safety and quality by the respondents. And seven independent variables together explain about 55.4% of the total variance in the attitudes of the rural women respondents towards food safety and quality.
 
Keywords
food safety; food quality; rural women; COVID-19; behavior; knowledge; skills; attitudes; Beheira Governorate
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