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Rural Women's Behavior towards Food Safety and Quality at Damanhour District, Beheira Governorate

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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Agricultural extension

Abstract

The research aimed to identify the behavior of rural women towards food safety and quality at Damanhour Distrct, the simple random sample amounted to 240 respondents, representing 5% of the total. The data were collected through a personal interview by questionnaire. The most important results were: 47.9% of the respondents have a low and medium total level of knowledge of food safety and quality, and 59.5% of them have a low and medium level of implementation of those practices, 52.1% have a negative and neutral attitude towards these practices, 68.3% believe that they have not been previously infected with Covid 19, and 49.2% have not taken the vaccine for Covid 19, the All agreed on the availability of the vaccine, 35% of the respondents have a low and medium level of knowledge of practices related to food safety and quality under Covid 19, and 50.8% have a low and medium level of implementation of those practices. Also, five independent variables together explain 65.4% of the total variance in the respondents' knowledge of practices related to food safety and quality, four independent variables together explain about 62.3% of the total variance in the implementation of practices related to food safety and quality by the respondents. And seven independent variables together explain about 55.4% of the total variance in the attitudes of the rural women respondents towards food safety and quality.
 

DOI

10.21608/asejaiqjsae.2022.268006

Keywords

Food Safety, food quality, Rural Women, COVID-19, Behavior, Knowledge, Skills, Attitudes, Beheira Governorate

Authors

First Name

Salwa

Last Name

Ghaly

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Affiliation

Agriculture extension Department, Damanhour university

Email

salwa.ghaly@agr.dmu.edu.eg

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First Name

Ali

Last Name

Mahmoud

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Affiliation

Agriculture extension Department, Damanhour University

Email

ali2030mahmoud@agr.dmu.edu.eg

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First Name

Olfat

Last Name

Shahin

MiddleName

Shaban

Affiliation

Agricultural extension, Faculty of Agriculture, Damanhour university

Email

olfat.shahin@agr.dmu.edu.eg

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Volume

43

Article Issue

4

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37463

Issue Date

2022-12-01

Receive Date

2022-09-20

Publish Date

2022-12-01

Page Start

1,233

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1,254

Print ISSN

1110-0176

Online ISSN

2536-9784

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https://asejaiqjsae.journals.ekb.eg/article_268006.html

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53

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Publication Title

Alexandria Science Exchange Journal

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

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Rural Women's Behavior towards Food Safety and Quality at Damanhour District, Beheira Governorate

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Created At

22 Jan 2023