Rice Farmers Exposure to The Rice Expert System and Its Impact on Them in Some Village of El-Behera Governorate | ||||
Alexandria Science Exchange Journal | ||||
Article 20, Volume 34, January-March - Serial Number 1, March 2013, Page 27-48 PDF (6.77 MB) | ||||
Document Type: Original Article | ||||
DOI: 10.21608/asejaiqjsae.2013.159111 | ||||
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Author | ||||
Safaa Ahmad Faheem El-Bindary El-Deeb | ||||
Abstract | ||||
This research amid mainly to identify the respondents' exposure level to the rice expert system, and its impact on them. The study was carried out for achieving the following: 1-To identify objectives some characteristics of the respondents. 2-To determine the degree of respondents' exposure to rice expert system.3-To identify the impact of exposure to the rice expert system .4-Study the statistical relationship between some studied independent variables and the depended variables. Data were collected by using questionnaire through personal interviews with a 148 rice farmers. Data were analyzed statistically by using Percentages, frequencies, arithmetic means, standard deviation, simple correlation coefficient, and multiple correlation and regression analysis (step-wise). The main findings were as follows: 30.4% from the respondents have a low exposure level, while 57.4%, and 12.2% from them their exposure level were medium and high respectively. The exposure impact to the rice expert system was a high on 41.2% of respondents. The study showed that there are many obstacles facing the respondents concerning their exposure to this expert system. The study showed that there are four independent variables: respondent's education level, respondent's aspiration level, respondent's opinion about the rice expert system and their opinion about the extension explained about 43.8% in their variance of exposure degree as a dependent variable. The study showed that there are three independent variables: information sources, confidential of respondents on system and the respondent's opinion in the variance of the impact of exposure as a dependent variable about the information of rice expert system explained about 39.6% in respondent's exposure degree of impact them. | ||||
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