Beta
255670

The effect of social habits on food consumption in the countryside of Assiut governorate, Egypt

Article

Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

Subjects

-

Tags

Agricultural Economics, Rural Sociology and Agricultural Extension

Abstract

The research aimed to determine the level of practice of the respondents from the heads of rural families of the habits related to food behavior and related to social events, as well as to determine the impact of habits on the rate of their consumption of food in the research area, as well as to identify the respondents' proposals to rationalize their consumption of food in the research area from their point of view, and to achieve the objectives of the research. The data were collected from a random sample of 380 respondents using a questionnaire form using the personal interview method during the period from January 2022 to March 2022, the weighted average and T-test were used in statistical data analysis, and Cohn's equation was applied to measure the effect size  in addition to the tabular display in frequencies and percentages. The results showed that most of the social habits that the respondents adhere to and practice to a greater extent are the social habits associated with wedding occasions compared to their counterparts in the habits associated with other social occasions. It was also found that the respondents' adherence to some social habits decreased, such as the celebration of Sham El-Nessim, the annual of the deceased and male circumcision ceremonies. The results also showed that the habit of the newborn week affected by an average increase in poultry consumption, oil, and sugar, and a low increase in the consumption of meat, flour, bread, vegetables, ghee, and fruits. While male circumcision ceremonies usually affected by an average increase in the consumption of meat, bread, vegetables, and sugar, and a low increase in the consumption of poultry, flour, ghee, oil, and fruits, and that usually wedding banquets affected a high increase in the consumption of meat, poultry, flour, bread, and vegetables ghee, oil, sugar, and fruits, with an average increase in the consumption of eggs, and a low increase in the consumption of milk, And that the habit of funeral feasts affected a high increase in the consumption of meat, poultry, bread, vegetables, sugar, and fruits, with an average increase in the consumption of flour, ghee, and oil, and a low increase in the consumption of fruits, and that the habit of celebrating Sham El-Nessim affected by an average increase in the consumption of fish, and eggs.

DOI

10.21608/aasj.2022.151051.1127

Keywords

social habits, food consumption, countryside of Assiut governorate

Authors

First Name

M.

Last Name

Suleiman

MiddleName

S. G.

Affiliation

Department of Agricultural Extension & Rural Sociology, Faculty of Agriculture, Al-Azhar University, Assiut, Egypt

Email

mohammedsuleiman.4919@gmail.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

O.

Last Name

Afify

MiddleName

D. H.

Affiliation

Department of Agricultural Extension & Rural Sociology, Faculty of Agriculture, Al-Azhar University, Assiut, Egypt

Email

-

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

M.

Last Name

Abdel-Hafez

MiddleName

M. I.

Affiliation

Department of Agricultural Extension & Rural Sociology, Faculty of Agriculture, Al-Azhar University, Assiut, Egypt

Email

-

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

H.

Last Name

Salem

MiddleName

A. A.

Affiliation

Department of Agricultural Extension & Rural Sociology, Faculty of Agriculture, Al-Azhar University, Assiut, Egypt

Email

-

City

-

Orcid

-

Related Issue

-2

Receive Date

2022-05-19

Publish Date

2022-07-21

Page Start

111

Page End

124

Print ISSN

2535-1680

Online ISSN

2535-1699

Link

https://aasj.journals.ekb.eg/article_255670.html

Detail API

https://aasj.journals.ekb.eg/service?article_code=255670

Order

48

Type

Research article

Type Code

764

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

Archives of Agriculture Sciences Journal

Publication Link

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

MainTitle

The effect of social habits on food consumption in the countryside of Assiut governorate, Egypt

Details

Type

Article

Created At

22 Jan 2023