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Manifestations of climate change from the point of view of farmers in one of the villages of Desouk district, Kafr El-Sheikh governorate, Egypt

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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Agricultural Economics, Rural Sociology and Agricultural Extension

Abstract

This research was conducted in the village of Kafr Majar, Desouk district, with the aim of clarifying the manifestations of climate change from the farmer's perspective in the research area, identifying the relative importance of these dimensions, and finally to identify the relationship between those aspects and some independent variables. The village of Kafr Majar was chosen randomly from the villages of Desouk district, and the owners of the village were (300) farmers. A total of 168 farmers were sampled. The data were collected using a questionnaire form through a personal interview with the sample members after conducting the initial test on it, during January 2020, and iterations, arithmetic mean, weighted average, correlation and regression analyze, were used to analyze and present the data. The most important results that were reached were identifying the relative importance of the three dimensions of the manifestations of climate change arranged according to the weighted average as follows: The dimension of the manifestations of climate change related to water is in the first, followed by the dimension of the aspects related to the environment in the second, and finally the dimension related to the aspects related to agricultural land and crop quality. The nine independent variables studied together explain (47.9%) of the variation in the manifestations of climate change from the perspective of the farmers, and that the most contributing variables in explaining the variation in the manifestations of climate change are achievement motivation, followed by the attitude toward change, then the educational status of the respondent.

DOI

10.21608/aasj.2020.153844

Keywords

manifestations, Climate Change, farmers, Kafr El-Sheikh

Authors

First Name

Sama

Last Name

Elbarky

MiddleName

F.

Affiliation

Agricultural Extension and Rural Development Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center, Giza, Egypt

Email

re_rakha@yahoo.com

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Volume

3

Article Issue

2

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16930

Issue Date

2020-08-01

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2020-07-04

Publish Date

2020-08-01

Page Start

168

Page End

177

Print ISSN

2535-1680

Online ISSN

2535-1699

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Research article

Type Code

764

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Publication Title

Archives of Agriculture Sciences Journal

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https://aasj.journals.ekb.eg/

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Manifestations of climate change from the point of view of farmers in one of the villages of Desouk district, Kafr El-Sheikh governorate, Egypt

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Created At

22 Jan 2023