This research aimed to identify some of the characteristics of the respondents working in agricultural cooperative societies, to identify the respondents 'knowledge of the activities related to the role of agricultural cooperative societies in extension work, to identify the sources of the respondents' knowledge of the activities related to the role of agricultural cooperative societies in the extension work, and to propose a plan for a training program to advance the respondents 'knowledge related to The role of cooperative societies in agricultural extension work in Kafr El-Sheikh Governorate.
This research was conducted in Kafr El-Sheikh Governorate, which includes 59 agricultural cooperative societies in the agricultural reclamation sector. This research data analyzing by: frequencies, percentage, mean, standard deviation, and weighted average, and the data was analyzed by computer using the statistical program package in the social sciences version 16 (SPSS) Statistical Program of Social Sciences.
The most important results of the search were:
- (83.7%) of the respondents had a low and medium level of knowledge of the activities related to the role of agricultural cooperatives in extension work.
- The most important educational extension activities that the respondents experienced through the Agricultural Cooperative Society: the establishment of extension sessions to spread contractual agriculture by 70%, the establishment of practical explanations in front of the farmers by 57.5%, and each of the implementation of some explanatory operations in front of the guides and the simplification of the indicative recommendations for farmers and their publication in posters Indicative fields by 56.2%, then establishing extension fields for the main crops by 55%.
- The most important economic activities: Providing marketing information to farmers, at a rate of 67.5%, and contributing to marketing crops at a rate of 50.6%.
- The most important social activities are conducting home visits to convince farmers to participate in social participation, providing solutions to the problems of the guides that encounter the rural community, resolving conflicts between farmers and each other, and educating leaders about their imperceptible problems by 61.2% each, followed by identifying the community problems of farmers by 59.4%.