(Educational Benefit of Farmers Participating in the Field Irrigation Development Project in the Old Lands in Sohag Governorate) | ||
| Journal of Sohag Agriscience (JSAS) | ||
| Volume 10, Issue 2, December 2025, Pages 170-181 PDF (909.15 K) | ||
| Document Type: Research and Review Papers | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/jsasj.2025.463370 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Esraa Murad* ; Abdelmonem Kawkab; Mansour Abd- Elwahed | ||
| Extension and Rural Sociology Department Faculty of Agriculture Sohag University Sohag Egypt | ||
| Abstract | ||
| This research mainly aimed to determine the degree of educational benefit gained by farmers participating in the Field Irrigation Development Project from the extension practices provided by the project in the old lands of Sohag Governorate. It also sought to identify the distinguishing characteristics of the surveyed farmers involved in the project and to determine the correlation between the studied independent variables of participating farmers and their educational benefit from the extension practices offered by the Field Irrigation Development Project in Sohag Governorate. Additionally, the research aimed to determine the contribution percentage of each correlated variable in explaining the variation in the overall educational benefit from these extension practices. This study was conducted in Sohag Governorate with a sample of 342 farmers participating in the Field Irrigation Development Project. Data were collected through a questionnaire via personal interviews with the respondents during August and September 2024. Data presentation and analysis involved tabular display, frequencies, percentages, weighted arithmetic mean, standard deviation, coefficient of variation, Pearson correlation coefficient, Chi-Square test, and stepwise multiple regression analysis, using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). The most important findings of the research were as follows: The vast majority of the surveyed farmers (95.9%) had a high to moderate level of educational benefit from the technical practices provided by the Field Irrigation Development Project. The overall educational benefit level for participating farmers in Sohag Governorate was high across all technical practices, with an average score of 2.44. There was an inverse correlation between age and the overall educational benefit from the extension practices provided by the project. There was a positive correlation between both the number of training courses on field irrigation and the benefit gained from these courses, and the overall educational benefit from the extension practices. The variables age, educational level, and the number of training courses on field irrigation contributed to the variation in the overall educational benefit from the extension practices provided by the project | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Educational Benefit; Farmers; Field Irrigation; Old Lands; Sohag Governorate | ||
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