Beta
203518

Farmers’ Knowledge of Date Palm Production at Damietta Governorate

Article

Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

Subjects

-

Tags

Agricultural extension

Abstract

The aim of reseach determine the respondents' knowledge of date palm production at Damietta Governorate, and by conducting a comprehensive inventory of palm growers in the Kafr al-Batekh district in all its agricultural cooperative societies. The number of palm growers holding 1578 farmers was counted, and a random sample of 10% of the total inclusive of the owners of the Kafr Al-Batekh Association was selected to represent the target research sample. The data were collected by personal interviewing with interviewees. The data were processed in percentages, means, standard deviation, simple and multiple correlation coefficients, partial multiple regression coefficient and step-wise and statistical analysis was done using SPSS, version 16.
The main findings of this research revealed that:
 - The results showed that 21% of the farmers surveyed have a high degree of knowledge, while about 79% of them came in the categories of low and medium knowledge of the recommendations related to date palm production.
 - There is a direct and moral correlation relationship at the 0.01 probability level between achievement motivation, the trend towards agricultural extension variables, and the degree of respondents' knowledge of date palm production.
 - The independent variables together explain 21.5% from the variance in the dependent variable ( knowledge of the respondents in the production of date palms) .The more affected independent variables on the dependent variable were: the respondents' age, innovatation, education level, and achievement motivation.

DOI

10.21608/asejaiqjsae.2021.203518

Keywords

Knowledge, date farmers, Production problems

Authors

First Name

Frag Mohamed Awid

Last Name

Elsbeay

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department of Agricultural Extension and Rural Development - Faculty of Agriculture - Damietta University

Email

drfrag86@gmail.com

City

Damietta

Orcid

-

First Name

Ahmed

Last Name

Ragab

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Agriculture Faculty - Dameitta University

Email

ahmed2hym@gmail.com

City

-

Orcid

-

Volume

42

Article Issue

4

Related Issue

28123

Issue Date

2021-10-01

Receive Date

2021-10-05

Publish Date

2021-12-31

Page Start

1,861

Page End

1,879

Print ISSN

1110-0176

Online ISSN

2536-9784

Link

https://asejaiqjsae.journals.ekb.eg/article_203518.html

Detail API

https://asejaiqjsae.journals.ekb.eg/service?article_code=203518

Order

25

Type

Original Article

Type Code

53

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

Alexandria Science Exchange Journal

Publication Link

https://asejaiqjsae.journals.ekb.eg/

MainTitle

Farmers’ Knowledge of Date Palm Production at Damietta Governorate

Details

Type

Article

Created At

22 Jan 2023