Evaluation Quality of the Digital Extension Application "El-Mufeed in Food and Agriculture" from the Viewpoint of Rural Development Officials at El-Gharbia Governorate | ||||
| Journal of Sustainable Agricultural Sciences | ||||
| Article 14, Volume 50, Issue 4, December 2024, Page 623-636 PDF (1.08 MB) | ||||
| Document Type: Review Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/jsas.2024.337510.1495 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
Adel Ibrahim M. A. Elhamoly   1; Marwa Salem Elgorab2; Ahmad Abdelaleim Elshafei3
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| 1Dept of Agric. Extension, Fac. of Agric., Kafrelsheikh University | ||||
| 2Institute of Agric extension, Agricultural Research Center | ||||
| 3قسم الاقتصاد الزراعي- کلية الزراعة- جامعة کفرالشيخ | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| This research mainly aims to evaluate quality of the extension application “El-Mufeed in Food and Agriculture”, this research was conducted in El-Gharbia Governorate, from four administrative districts (Tanta, Qotour, El-Mahalla al-Kubra, and Samanoud) were selected randomly. The number of rural development officials was counted to 140 officials. A simple random sample from them was 104 respondents. The data collect through a personal questionnaire in April 2024. the data was processed statistically by: frequencies, percentages, mean, standard deviation, and weighted average, the most important results were: About 85% of respondents were found in the categories medium and high degrees of the total quality standards availability of the studied application. About 89% of them agreed that there were obstacles to their use of the application to a low or medium degree, the most important of which were: the lack of Internet service in the workplace with a weighted average of 60 degree, followed by the unavailability of computers in the workplace with a weighted average of 59.67 degree, then the weakness of the Internet among a large number of those targeted by the counseling service with a weighted average of 55.33 degree. Their most important suggestions to overcome them were: providing modern computers in agricultural extension workers’ workplaces by 98.1%, strengthening Internet networks in rural areas by 95.2%, performing periodic maintenance on electronic devices for extension workers by 91.3%, and training agricultural extension workers to use the extension application by 88.5%. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Evaluation; specifications; Treatment; Content; Obstacles; Suggests; Application | ||||
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