JASMINE FARMERS ADOPTION FOR THE AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION RECOMMENDATIONS PRACTICES IN SOME VilLAGES IN aUTOR AND BASUYN DISTRICTS IN GHARBIA GOVERNORATE | ||||
| Journal of Agricultural Economics and Social Sciences | ||||
| Article 5, Volume 27, Issue 11, November 2002, Page 7471-7485 PDF (13.55 MB) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/jaess.2002.257119 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| Z. M. Saker,1; E. F. EI-Zahar,2 | ||||
| 1Dept. of Extension Programs, Agric Extension and Rural Dev. Inst. | ||||
| 2Dept. of Methods and Aids Ext., Agric Extension and Rural Dev. Inst. | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| This research aimed to identify knowledge level and adoption level of jasmine farmers for the agricultural extension recommendations practices and to determine the correlation relationship between dependent and independent variables also, to identify the agricultural information sources through the adoption stages among farmers for the idea of jasmine product. The study was conducted in eight villages in Outor and Basuyn districts in Gharbia govemorate. Data were collected from a sample of 203 respondents (50%) of total jasmine farmers by using personal interviews, frequencies, percentages, means, simple and multiple correlations and regression coefficient were used for data analysis. The results showed that: 1· The important sources of agricultural information through adoption stages were: relatives, friends, personal experience, factory representative and great farmers in village. 2· There was correlation relationship (positive and significant) between knowledge level and jasmine farmers adoption level for the agricultural extension recommendations practices as dependent variables and the following independent variables: educational level of respondent's wife, size of farm, farm size which cultivated with jasmine, jasmine production of one karat, attitude toward jasmine agricultural technology, prepared of change and number of sons who work in agriculture. 3· There was correlation relationship (negative and significant) between dependent variables and distance between the jasmine farm and collecting center of jasmine in the village. 4· The independent variables explained 51 % of variance in the knowledge level and it also explained 46% of variance in the jasmine farmers adoption level for the agricultural extension recommendations practices. The findings indicated that the Important problems of jasmine production for the farmers were: deficiency of the extension technical marketing for jasmine product and deficiency of extension recommendations through all the stages of jasmine production on the other hand, the respondents suggested that: i) Informing the farmers how to market Jasmine crop. ii) Supporting with pesticides and chemical fertilizers. iii) Giving the agricultural extension agent with technical information about jasmine production to transfer it to the farmers. | ||||
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