Beekeepers' Adaptation to Climate Changes in Gharbia Governorate تکيف مربي نحل العسل مع التغيرات المناخية بمحافظة الغربية | ||||
| Scientific Journal of Agricultural Sciences | ||||
| Article 30, Volume 3, Issue 1, June 2021, Page 393-407 PDF (722.36 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/sjas.2021.73807.1091 | ||||
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| Author | ||||
Ahmed Al-Gohary 
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| Faculty of Agriculture, Tanta University, Egypt. | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| This research mainly aimed to identify the level of adaptation of beekeepers to climate change in Gharbia governorate. Gharbia governorate has been chosen as spatial field for the study. Two districts in Gharbia governorate were selected according to the standard of number of beekeepers which are Tanta and Mahalla Al-Kubra. The resesrch population was delineated as being formed of the whole beekeepers in the two selected districted. Random samples of 206 beekeepers were chosen. Research objectives have been specified in a set of null hypotheses to be tested in this study. Data were collected from sample persons by personal interview questionnaire. Collected data were coded and analyzed using the SPSS package. The main findings of the study could be summarized as follows: - 1- There were statistically significant bivariate relationships at the level of 0.01 of significance between opinion leadership, willingness to change, exposure to sources of information, and Satisfaction with extensional services, and beekeepers' knowledge about climate change, and between beekeepers' adaptation to climate change; Also there were statistically significant bivariate relationships at the level of 0.05 of significance between age and between beekeepers' adaptation to climate change; while there were no statistically significant bivariate relationships between educational level, experience in beekeeping, and training in beekeeping and between beekeepers' adaptation to climate change. 2- The studied independent variables combined, explained about 35.2 % of the variances of the variable of beekeepers' adaptation to climate change. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Adaptation; Honeybee; Climate Change; Gharbia governorate | ||||
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