(Training Needs for Employees of the Ministry Of Agriculture in the Field of Protecting Agricultural Lands to Adapt to Climate Changes in Sohag Governorate) | ||||
Journal of Sohag Agriscience (JSAS) | ||||
Volume 10, Issue 2, December 2025, Page 62-70 PDF (872.75 K) | ||||
Document Type: Research and Review Papers | ||||
DOI: 10.21608/jsasj.2025.450411 | ||||
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Authors | ||||
Esraa Murad ![]() | ||||
Extension and Rural Sociology Department Faculty of Agriculture Sohag University Sohag Egypt | ||||
Abstract | ||||
This research mainly aimed to determine the training needs of workers in the Ministry of Agriculture in the field of protecting agricultural lands to adapt to climate changes in Sohag Governorate. This research was conducted in Sohag Governorate on a sample of (263) employees from the agricultural departments in Sohag Governorate. The data were collected through a questionnaire by a personal interview with the respondents during the months of July and August 2019, and was used in the presentation and analysis of data, tabular presentation, iterations, percentages and weighted average arithmetic , Standard deviation, differentiation coefficient, Pearson correlation coefficient, Chi Square Test, and stepwise multiple regression analysis by using the (SPSS). The most important results were as follows: More than half of the respondents working in the Ministry of Agriculture in Sohag Governorate (59.7%) have a very strong training need for technical recommendations related to protecting agricultural lands to adapt to climate change. The degree of training need of the respondents was high for all technical recommendations related to protecting agricultural lands to adapt to climate change, with an average score of 3.65, which ranged between (3.55-3.78), where the technical recommendations related to irrigation and drainage ranked with an average of 3.78 degrees. In the first, technical recommendations related to service operations for agricultural lands, with an average score of 3.55, ranked last. There is a positive, significant correlation between the variables of upbringing, exposure to information sources, the number of training courses in the field of land protection to adapt to climate change, job satisfaction, and openness to the outside world and the degree of total training need of the respondents working in the Ministry of Agriculture in Sohag Governorate regarding the technical recommendations related to the protection of agricultural lands. To adapt to climate changes. The most important recommendations of the research were represented in the necessity of planning and implementing training programs on a regular basis to raise the level of knowledge and skills with the guidance recommendations for preserving and maintaining agricultural lands, and the necessity of directing attention and focusing efforts towards effective methods for transferring knowledge and expertise to employees of the Ministry of Agriculture, the most important of which are direct sources of information, The need for coordination between the relevant agencies in the Ministry of Agriculture and other bodies involved in protecting agricultural lands and climate change. | ||||
Keywords | ||||
Employees of the Ministry Of Agriculture; Agricultural Lands; Climate Changes; Sohag Governorate | ||||
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