A STUDY OF ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS FOR FARMERS’ SONS IN THE REGION OF ALGABAL ALAKHDAR-LIBYA. | ||||
| Fayoum Journal of Agricultural Research and Development | ||||
| Article 31, Volume 23, Issue 1, January 2009, Page 8-17 PDF (318.86 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Research articles. | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/fjard.2009.197043 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| Abdel Aziz Awad; Dakhel H. Alzubaidi; Mohamed A. Mohamed | ||||
| Agricultural Extension and Rural Development Department-Faculty of Agriculture-University of Omar Almukhtar-Libya. | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| The mainly goal of this study is the recognition on environmental awareness for farmers’ sons in the region of Algabal Alakhdar-Libya, whatever it is knowledge or implementation, from the point of environment maintenance from pollution, factors affecting on this awareness, and the effect of the studied variables on the level of their environmental awareness. A systematic sample with a size of 362 researched individuals distributed in five regions (Table 1) was taken, data were collected through questionnaire with personal interview during April and May-2006. The researchers used frequency tables, percentages, simple correlation coefficient, K2, and multiple regression in data analysis. The results showed that more than half of the researched individuals had medium knowledge level in the practices of environment maintenance (55.5%), and low implementation level. The results indicated that (59.4%) of the researched were of medium environmental awareness in the field of environment maintenance from pollution. The results also showed a significant relationship at 0.01 between the degree of the environmental awareness and each of educational level, the degree of cosmopolite, knowledge sources, and perception of region problems. These variables interpretated (32%) of the variance in the researched individuals awareness degree by environment maintenance from pollution. | ||||
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