An Exploratory Study of the Farm Environmental Risks in Bangar El Soukar Area from the Leaders’ Point of View "دراسة استكشافية للمخاطر البيئية المزرعية بمنطقة بنجر السكر من منظور قادة المنطقة" | ||
| Alexandria Journal of Agricultural Sciences | ||
| Article 1, Volume 68, Issue 2, June 2023, Pages 80-92 PDF (3.3 M) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/alexja.2023.206442.1035 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Samir Abdelazeam Osman1; Ahmed Wagdy M. Zeid1; Hossam El Deen Ebrahim Abdelaal2; Mokhtar Abdelgalil Awad Mihoub Gabriel* 2 | ||
| 1Department of Agricultural Extension Education, Faculty of Agriculture, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt | ||
| 2Extension Department, Socio-Economic Studies Division, Desert Research Center, Cairo, Egypt | ||
| Abstract | ||
| This research aimed to identify the Farm Environmental Risks in Bangar El Soukar Area from the Leaders’ Point of View, by classifying and determining the farm environmental risks, due to their effects on the research area to reduce and face these risks. The results of 50 leaders have been deliberately chosen from the research area. A questionnaire was designed for personal interviews and collected data during April 2022. some statistical tools were used such as frequency tables, percentages, and relative weights. The most important results of the research were: 52% of the total respondents have Bachelor's degree. 26% of them were agricultural engineers, and 24% of them were farmers. The leaders' opinions varied regarding the prevalence of farm environmental risks facing farmers in the research area. "Ignorance of environmental protection legislation," "Neglect of agricultural waste recycling," and "Intensive and unsafe use of pesticides" was ranked as the top three farm environmental risks, with relative weights of 2.7, 2.42, and 2.40, respectively. Land degradation and using unapproved seeds were ranked first from the leaders' perspective with the same relative weight of 1.86. This was followed by neglecting deep plowing of agricultural soil, neglecting sun-drying of the land after harvesting, increasing post-harvest losses, and neglecting land tillage before planting, with relative weights of 1.78, 1.66, 1.56, and 1.52, respectively. On the other hand, "Unsafe use of growth regulators," "Use of plant growth hormones," "Irrigation with sewage water," and "Irrigation with industrial wastewater" ranked low in terms of the prevalence of agricultural environmental risks, with relative weights of 0.72, 0.58, 0.16, and 0.06, respectively. The results revealed the existence of sixteen proposals to reduce farm ecological risks from the leaders' perspective, The most prominent proposals were "the necessity of awareness programs on the importance of good agricultural practices," "providing new varieties that can withstand high temperatures and have high productivity," "providing early maturity varieties to reduce their water requirements," "the necessity of raising awareness on the safe use of pesticides," and "raising awareness on the importance of modifying planting schedules," with percentages of 90.0%, 80.0%, 76.0%, 76.0%, and 72.0%, respectively. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Exploratory Study; Leaders; Farm Risks | ||
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