FARMING METHODS TO CURB DESERTIFICATION AT MATROUH GOVERNORATE | ||||
| Fayoum Journal of Agricultural Research and Development | ||||
| Article 19, Volume 30, Issue 1, January 2016, Page 147-165 PDF (4.56 MB) | ||||
| Document Type: Research articles. | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/fjard.2016.191741 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| Sayed Abd Elnaby Haikel; Hanan Saad El-Din Hamed | ||||
| Desert Research Center | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| The research amid basically at awareness degree of respondents for the reasons leading to desertification, identify implementation degree of reducing desertification methods, identify the most important variables affecting both weariness and implementation degree of reducing desertification methods , to identify the farmers problems faced by the respondents. Research was conducted Matrouh governorate, a sample of (168) respondents ( 5% of the population), has been selected. Data were collected by a questionnaire specially prepared to achieve the research objectives, the statistical tools included: percentage and the arithmetic mean, standard deviation, and coefficient of the simple Pearson correlation and multiple regression. The most important findings were: - That 25.6% of respondents with a low degree of understanding of the causes of desertification, and 29.1% of those with an average degree of perception, and that 45.3% had high degree of perception. - Results showed that the awareness degree of respondents to the causes of desertification significant were of correlation at the moral level of 0.01 to each of: Capacity animal possessory, and the degree of tribal leadership, and degree of adherence to custons and tribal traditions, while she it was with a moral relationship at the moral level of 0.05 to size of land holding, attitudes towards agricultural extension, degree of exposure to information sources and there were no significant positive or negative relationship with the rest of the independent variables, namely: age, the degree of the respondent's education. - It turns out that the percentage contribution of variables in explaining the contrast kidney respondents to the causes of desertification were significant at a level of 0.01 and that the contribution ratio gathered together in the predictive power of change is 52.6%, of which 35.3% is attributable to the degree of tribal leadership, 9.5% to the point of belonging to the community of tribal, 4 0.9% to the degree of adherence to tribal customs and traditions, to 2.9% and the degree of the trend toward extension. - Results showed that 37.2% of respondents with low implementation of the terms of the reduction of desertification, and 34.3% of them are middleimplement, and that 28.5% of them with high implementation. - Results show that the degree of implementation of agriculture to the terms of the reduction of desertification were of a positive correlation at the moral level of 0.01 both: both: Capacity animal possessory, and the degree of leadership < br />tribal, and the degree of belonging to the community tribal, and the degree of adherence to the customs and traditions of the tribal and the degree of exposure to sources of information, while The relationship spirits at a level of 0.05 with a degree trend towards agricultural extension, while it appears that there were significant relationship with the age variable and the degree of education of the respondent, the area of agricultural holdings. - It turns out that the percentage contribution of these variables in explaining the varition for the implementation of the respondents to the terms of the reduction of desertification were significant at a level of 0.01 and that the contribution ratio gathered together in the predictive power of change is 47.2%, of which 32.1% is attributable to the degree of tribal leadership, and 9.7% to a degree belonging to the tribal community, and 5.4% to the degree of exposure to sources of information. - results indicated that the most important problems facing respondents are: to act holdover from wells and springs, insufficient of water management, and insufficient of drainage network condition, high level ground on farms, high salinity and alkalinity of soil, lack of agricultural extension services. | ||||
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