THE ROLE OF THE PRIVATE AGRICULTURAL SECTOR'S IN PAlED EXTENSION FOR THE HORTICULTURE CROPS' GROWERS IN EL-SHARKIA AND ISMAILIA GOVERNORA TES | ||||
| Journal of Agricultural Economics and Social Sciences | ||||
| Article 5, Volume 30, Issue 10, October 2005, Page 6047-6062 PDF (4.09 MB) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/jaess.2005.208488 | ||||
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| Author | ||||
| A. H.Y.A. EI-Bahnasawy, | ||||
| Agricultural Extension and Rural oevetop-nent Research Institute | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| This study was intended to investigate the role of the private sectors units in providing the agricultural services, dealing with the growers of horticultural crops through paied agricultural extension, the satisfaction levels of the unit's responsibles when dealing with growers of the horticulture crops and the problems that units face when deanng with the growers during the paid agricultural service. The data were collected from the responslbles of the 100 units which represent 25% of the private agricultural sector units authorized for selling fertilizers in Sharkiz and Ismailia Governorates. The data were collected by using a questionnaire designed for this purpose, through interviews, Means, weighted means, and Chi square were the tools for analysis. The study concluded some important points, as follows: The agricultural private sector units provides more than one of the services. The growers of the horticulture crops were dealed with these units only in case of plant diseases. There was more than a way for the grower to contact the unit to ask for advice as: going in person to the unit location. The grower goes frequently to the units which advise him. The unit offers the service in more than one location, most of these services offered freely to gain the grower's trust. The units responsibles prefer that the services fees would the services fees would be included in future with the sales' price to get free show. Half of the units responsibles were satisfied in working with the growers, the most important i1dication to this satisfaction is the application of the unit's advise. Beside, the units' responsibles qualification and training and their contacts with the governmental agricultural extension and their satisfaction with the grower, had a significant relationship with delivering the services. The problems which face the units from offering the paied extension service for the growers were the low life standard of the grower, high rate of illiteracy, the grower doesn't get used to lrnmediate payment, the small area of the horticultures, the absence from the extension seminars, the disability of some farmers to do the right agricultural practices, some growers misunderstand the units' tips, fear from exploitation by the agricultural private sector and the inconvenient package. Some recommendations about solving the problems of offering the agricultural extension service for growers were propos | ||||
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