EXTENSION NEEDS OF DATE PALM GROWERS IN EDKO AND ROSSETTE PROVINCES OF BEHERA GOVERNORATE | ||||
| Journal of Agricultural Economics and Social Sciences | ||||
| Article 4, Volume 29, Issue 9, September 2004, Page 5027-5040 PDF (822.17 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/jaess.2004.209793 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| M. Z. EI-Zarka,; K. M. Farag | ||||
| Faculty of Agriculture, Alexandria University I Damanhour Branch | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| This study primarily aimed at determining extension needs of date palm growers through identifying their knoYt'ledge of cultural practises. Their often, a training program would be designed to fulfil their needs and face their problems in growing and marketting date palm in both Edko and Rossette ristricts, Sehera Governorate.Aquestionaire was designed and distributed to a random simple of 148 date palm growers of both provences. Then the questionaire was collected and date were analysed and display as precentages, frequency tables , means , standard diviation , simple correlations, and Qai square. The mean results of this study were the following: 1- Low knowledge level. of most studied farmers of technical skills needed to grow and produce date palm specially in the the areas of date palm propagation, pests and diseases, paking or harvesting , postharvest treatments of dates, and lack of some skills in the areas flowering, polination and fruit set. 2- Percentage of growers utilizing television programs to improve their knowledge was 92.27% while those seeking guidance from agricultural extension specialists represented 74.32 %. 3- The two variables, number of children and agricultural communication, were positively correlated while the two other variables namely the type of ownership and non agricultural jobs, were not correlated with their knowledge of date palm cultural practises. 4- The educational status, social status and date palm by - product utilization were correlated with the growers knowledge of date palm production practises , it was found that Qai square values or such variables were 18.845,23.402, and 13.023 respectively ( at 0.01 level ). | ||||
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