EXTENSION NEEDS OF FARMERS FOR RATIONALIZATION OF THE USE OF CHEMICAL PESTICIDES IN THE CONTROL OF TOMATO PESTS IN SOME VILLAGES OF MINIA GOVERNORATE

The research aimed to determining the level of knowledge and implemention needs of respondents farmers to the practices of rationalizing use of chemical pesticides in the control of tomato pests, in addition to determine the correlation and regression relationship between independent variables of respondents and the degree of knowledge and implemention need to practices of rationalizing the use of chemical pesticides for it, also identifying extension services Provided by the agricultural extension to rationalize the use of chemical pesticides in control of tomato pests, finally identifying the problems facing the respondents farmers when rationalizing the use of chemical pesticides in control of tomato pests from their point of view. This research was conducted in Minia Governorate, where the three largest district of area cultivated with tomatoes, they were: Samalout, Minia, Dermawas, it was followed with the same way, it was selected the largest village of each districts, they were: Village 4 in 43 Fayoum J. Agric. Res. & Dev., Vol. 34, No.2 July, 2020 Samalout district, Bani Ahmed in Minia district, Dalga in Dermawas district, and to achieve objectives of the research it were selected systematic random sample amounted to 195 respondents in three selected villages. The study data were collected by using the questionnaire with the personal interview during the March and April 2020, it was used frequency and percentages, arithmetic mean, the standard deviation,simple correlation coefficient of Pearson, chi square, and multiple regression analysis step-wise used to analyze the studied data . The main research results are summarized as follows: - The majority of respondents farmers (80%) were located in medium and high knowledge need categories of practices of rationalizing the use of chemical pesticides in contro of tomato pests. - The majority of respondents farmers (89.2%) came in the category of medium implemention need for rationalization practices of the use of chemical pesticides in the control of tomato pests. - There is a significant relationship at the level of 0.01 between: age, educational level, practice of farm work, size of agricultural tenure, cultivated area of tomato, number of years of experience in tomato cultivation, number of guiding seminars, degree of satisfaction with tomato cultivation and knowledge need degree to practices of rationalization of the use of chemical pesticides in control of tomato pests,. the results also indicate that the independent (quantitative) variables combined explain 63.5% of the variance in the cognitive need, while the independent (descriptive) variables together explain 56.7%. - It was found that there was a significant correlation at 0.01 level between: age, educational level, practice of farm work, size of agricultural tenure, cultivated area, tomato, number of years of experience in planting tomatoes, while it was significant at the level of 0.05 with degree of satisfaction with cultivation tomatoes and implemention need degree to the practices of rationalizing the use of chemical pesticides in control of tomato pests, the results also indicate that the independent (quantitative) variables combined explain 42.2% of the variation in the implemention need, while the independent (descriptive) variables combined explain 55.5% . - It was also evident that the extension services provided by the extension agency were weak to rationalize the use of chemical pesticides in combating tomato pests. - The most important problems that farmers face when rationalizing the use of chemical pesticides in control of tomato pests from their point of view ranged from a higher limit of (96.9%) related to the spread of illiteracy among farmers, which causes a decrease in their communication capabilities and not being exposed to materials (written or electronic) related to rationalization practices The use of chemical pesticides in the control of tomato pests, and a minimum of (46.7%), which relates to the lack of confidence between farmers and extension workers.