Knowledge Needs of Breeders About the Negative Effects of Climate Change on Livestock in Qena Governorate | ||||
| Assiut Journal of Agricultural Sciences | ||||
| Volume 55, Issue 1, January 2024, Page 309-326 PDF (604.88 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/ajas.2024.257043.1317 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
Ahmed A. N. Mohammed  ; Mohamed A. M. El-Ghazaly
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| Faculty of Agriculture, Al-Azhar University-Assiut Branch, Assiut, Egypt. | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| This research aimed to determine the knowledge needs of livestock breeders about the negative effects of climate change, determine the knowledge needs of the respondents regarding acclimatization practices to confront the negative effects of climate change on livestock and determine the relationship between the level of knowledge needs of the respondents and the independent variables studied. The research was conducted on a random sample of 118 livestock breeders. For livestock in Qena Governorate. Data was collected using a questionnaire prepared for this purpose. Frequencies, percentages, weighted arithmetic average, and Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient were used in presenting and analyzing the data The results Showed: 1-Nearly three-fifths of the respondents (58.5%) had a high knowledge need about the negative effects of climate change on livestock, while more than a third of the respondents (34.7%) had a moderate knowledge need, while 6.8% of the respondents had a knowledge need. Low negative effects of climate change on livestock. 2-More than a fifth of the respondents (21.2%) had a high knowledge need for regionalization practices to deal with the negative effects of climate change, while nearly two-thirds of the respondents (63.6%) had a moderate knowledge need, while 15.2% of the respondents had They have low cognitive needs. The research presented a set of recommendations, the most important of which is the necessity of working to spread awareness among breeders by introducing the issue of climate change and its negative effects on animal production through conducting guidance seminars, publishing guidance publications, and television programmers. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| needs; Climate change; Livestock | ||||
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