29644

DETERMINANTS OF SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE IN NEW VALLEY GOVERNORATE, EGYPT

Article

Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

Subjects

-

Tags

Socio-economics

Abstract

The purposes of this study were to measure respondents' applicationof sustainable agriculture technologies in the study area, identify factors determining this level of application, and to determine problems facing the agricultural sustainability from the viewpoint of farmers in the study area. Three villages (Al-liwaa Sobieh, Abdel-Mageid Al-Goghail, and Talaat Dergham) belonging to the New Valley observatory for development and cooperatives, Farafrah, New Valley governorate were selected to be the place of the study. Data were collected from a sample of 135 respondents (60, 37, and 38 respectively) during the period of June and July 2016 by personal interviews using a questionnaire form. Frequencies, percentages,range, average, standard deviation, Cronbach's Alpha, one way ANOVA,and Step-Wise multiple regression analysis were used for data analysis andresults' presentation. Findings of the study revealed that ‘F' value was notsignificant at any probability level; this indicated that there are no meandifferences of farmers' application of sustainable agriculture technologieswithin the three studied villages; this resulted on the combination of the three study's samples into one sample. Results also revealed that farmers'application of sustainable management of agricultural resources could be ranked as: animal resources (79.6٪ of the maximum score), plant resources (64.6٪ of the maximum score), land resources (61.4٪ of the maximum score), and finally water resources (56.9٪ of the maximum score). Theaverage score of farmers' application of sustainable agriculture was 39.81(64.2٪ of the maximum score). The majority of respondents (63.7٪) were located in the medium level of sustainable agriculture scale. Regarding factors determine level of adoption of sustainable agriculture technologies,results show that there are significant relationships between farmers'sustainable management of plant resources and 8 independent factors, 3 of them explain about 42.3٪ of differences in the dependent variable. Fiveindependent variables were significantly related with farmers' sustainablemanagement of land resources, 3 of them explain about 23.4٪ of differences in the dependent variable. Five independent variables were also significantly related with farmers' sustainable management of water resources, one ofthem explain about 7.6٪ of differences in the dependent variable. Findings also show that there are significant relationship between 9 independentvariables and farmers' sustainable management of animal resources, 3 ofthem explain about 54.1٪ of differences in the dependent variable. With regard to the total score of sustainable agriculture scale, results show thatthere are 7 independent variables related to farmers' application ofsustainable agriculture technologies, 2 of them explain about 39.2٪ of differences in the dependent variable. Finally the study determined problems facing sustainability of agriculture and concluded some recommendations.






 

DOI

10.21608/ejdr.2016.29644

Keywords

Sustainable agriculture, Sustainable Development, natural resources management, New Valley, Egypt

Authors

First Name

Ahmed

Last Name

Diab

MiddleName

M.

Affiliation

Department of Rural Sociology and Agricultural Extension, Faculty of Agriculture, Assiut University, The New Valley Branch, Egypt

Email

a.diab@aun.edu.eg

City

New Valley

Orcid

-

First Name

Hussien

Last Name

Tohamy

MiddleName

M.

Affiliation

Department of Social studies, Socio-economic Studies Division, Desert Research Center, Cairo, Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation, Egypt

Email

tohamy.h@drc.gov.eg

City

-

Orcid

-

Volume

66

Article Issue

2

Related Issue

1080

Issue Date

2016-12-01

Receive Date

2016-10-04

Publish Date

2016-12-01

Page Start

387

Page End

403

Print ISSN

1687-8043

Online ISSN

2356-9875

Link

https://ejdr.journals.ekb.eg/article_29644.html

Detail API

https://ejdr.journals.ekb.eg/service?article_code=29644

Order

8

Type

Original Article

Type Code

117

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

Egyptian Journal of Desert Research

Publication Link

https://ejdr.journals.ekb.eg/

MainTitle

DETERMINANTS OF SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE IN NEW VALLEY GOVERNORATE, EGYPT

Details

Type

Article

Created At

22 Jan 2023