Determinants of farmers’ behavior towards improving and maintaining agricultural lands in some villages of Beheira Governorate

Document Type : Research articles.

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1 Agricultural Extension and Rural Development Research Institute, Egypt

2 Department of Economic, Extension& Rural Sociology, Faculty of Agriculture- Suez Canal university, Egypt

Abstract

 The research aimed to identify the behavior of the respondents towards improving and maintaining agricultural lands by identifying the degree of knowledge, implementation and attitudes of the respondents towards the practices of improving and maintaining agricultural lands and the research included six processes of adding agricultural gypsum, surface plowing, plowing under the soil, precise leveling by laser, disinfection of field irrigators ,And clearing and smoothing field drains. The data were collected during the months of July and August 2022 AD By using the personal interview questionnaire form The field research was conducted on a sample of farmers, amounting to 224 respondents who were chosen by the simple random method, at a rate of 10% of the community.
To display the results, the frequency tables and percentages were used, the arithmetic mean and standard deviation were used to analyze them, and the simple correlation coefficient was used to find the relationship between the behavior of the respondents and the studied independent variables.
, Stepwise  regression analysis was used to determine the percentage of the contribution of the independent variables to the dependent variabl.
The most important results were:

The behavior of the respondents in relation to the practices of improving and maintaining agricultural lands was average.
The respondents' knowledge of the total practices of improving and maintaining agricultural lands was average.
The respondents' implementation of the practices of improving and maintaining agricultural lands was low.
The attitude of the respondents towards the practices of improving and maintaining agricultural lands is neutral.
Seven of the independent variables combined explain 61% of the total variance that explains the total degrees of the behavior of the surveyed farmers related to the practices of improving and maintaining agricultural lands. For the soil in the region, high prices of agricultural gypsum, lack of availability of agricultural gypsum, high costs of accurate leveling of agricultural land with laser, high costs of plowing under the soil, high costs of disinfection operations for canals and drains, and lack of accurate laser leveling machines.

 
 

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