CONTRIBUTION OF FIELD SCHOOLS ON FARMERS' KNOWLEDGE AND IMPLEMENTATION OF SOME RECOMMENDATIONS RELATED TO CITRUS PRODUCTION IN BEN I SWAIF GOVERNORATE | ||||
| Journal of Agricultural Economics and Social Sciences | ||||
| Article 1, Volume 30, Issue 11, November 2005, Page 6723-6730 PDF (1.97 MB) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/jaess.2005.208492 | ||||
 View on SCiNiTO | ||||
| Author | ||||
| B. A. A. Abdel Magid, | ||||
| Agricultural Extension and Rural Development Research Institute, ARC | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| The main objective of this research was to identify knowledge and implementation scores of farmers (affiliated and non-affiliated with field schools) to different technical recommendations related to citrus crop production as a way to determine impact of field schools on farmers' knowledge ad implementation to those concerned recommendations. The research was conducted in four villages located in Beni Swaif governorate (Kumn AI-Arous, and AI-Mimouna/EI Wasta district; and Brawa EI Wukf, and Kui/Ahnassia District). Field schools approach was applied in the two studies villages of Kuhn EI Arousal and AI Immune, while it was not applied in the studied two villages of Braw EI Waif and Chui. A random sample, of 75 farmers participated in field schools, was drawn similarly a random sample of 75 farmers not affiliated with field schools, was drawn. The research data were collected during the period June-July, 2004. A pre-tested written questionnaire and interpersonal interviews were used in collecting the research data. Frequency tables, Arithmetic means, percentage, and t-test were used in analyzing in obtained research data. The main research findings were as follows: (1) Average knowledge scores to those studied farmers affiliated with the field schools concerning technical recommendations related to citrus crop was 29.75 and with a standard deviation of 5.59. For those farmers who were not affiliated with field schools, mean of technical recommendation knowledge score was 11.88 and with a standard deviation of 2.56. (2) For those studied farmers affiliated with field schools, mean of their implementation of technical recommendations regarding citrus crop was 11. 88 and with a standard deviation of 2.79. On the other hand, mean of implementation to non-affiliated field schools farmers regarding citrus crop technical recommendations was 3.84 and with a standard deviation of 1.50. (3) There was a significant difference (at 0.01 significance level) between the two studied groups (affiliated and non-affiliated with field schools) concerning citrus crop technical recommendations knowledge, in favour of the affiliated studied group. (4) There was a significant difference (0.01 significance level) between two studied groups affiliated and non affiliated with field schools) regarding citrus technical recommendation' implementation scores, in favour of the affiliated studied group. | ||||
|
Statistics Article View: 65 PDF Download: 191 |
||||
