Farmer’s Knowledge and Application of Climate Change Adaptation Practices on Mango Crop in some Villages of Ismailia Governorate

The research aimed to identify the level of farmer’s knowledge of the impact of climate changes on the mango crop, as well as the level of their application of technical practices for adapting to climate changes on the mango crop, by identifying the extension of farmers' prior knowledge of the occurrence of climate changes on the mango crop and the source of their knowledge, and the most important effects of the observed climate changes mentioned by the farmer during the mango crop production season, and finally identify the practices of adaptation to climate changes applied by the farmer to reduce their negative effects on the mango crop. This research was conducted in Ismailia governorate, as it is one of the governorates where mango crop cultivation is concentrated, the District of Al-Qantara East, Al-Qantara West, and Abu Suray were selected because they are the largest Districts of the governorate in terms of the area planted with mango crops, and in the same way, the three largest villages belonging to the studied centers were selected, respectively, heroes village from, Due to the fact that they are the most mango-growing villages, and the comprehensiveness of this research was represented by all the possessor farmers and growers of the mango crop in the three selected villages, they numbered 8271 farmers from whom a random sample was taken and to determine its size from the total comprehensive of the three studied Districts by the krijcie and Morgan equation was used 367 farmers, representing 4.4% of the total number of farmers in each village, was based on the inventory of holders of agricultural cooperatives in the studied villages, data was collected using the personal interview questionnaire form, repetitions and percentages were used for tabular presentation, in analyzing the data and drawing research results, the most important results were:  That almost half of the respondents (50.7%) have prior knowledge of climate changes, while (49.2% of the farmers did not have knowledge of these changes before they occurred, and the most important sources of information from which the respondents derive their knowledge results indicate that the experience of the farmer occupied the first source of farmers  knowledge of climate changes before they occurred by 41%, followed by the weather forecast by 32.2%, then pesticide dealers by 15.2%, and finally neighbors by 3.1% only. 52.3% had a poor level of knowledge about the impact of climate change on the mango crop, and that (52.4%) of the total respondents had a low level of application of climate change adaptation practices, and the effects observed by farmers for each climate change amounted to twenty-five effects during the mango crop production season, of which twenty-four negative effects (97.2%), and only one positive effect (2.8%) from the most important practices applied by the surveyed farmers to reduce the negative effects of climate changes are low temperatures ranked first by relative weight (50.2), and the practice of spraying with mineral oil came in the ranking the first with a relative weight (77.9) to reduce the increase in the incidence of fungal diseases on the flowers, especially powdery mildew, while the effect of humidity occupied the last rank with a relative weight (40.9), and the practice of disinfecting work tools and equipment before using them, cultivating disease-resistant varieties came first rank with a relative weight (50.1), respectively.