This study primarily aimed at determining extension needs of date palm
growers through identifying their knoYt'ledge of cultural practises. Their often,
a training program would be designed to fulfil their needs and face their
problems in growing and marketting date palm in both Edko and Rossette
ristricts, Sehera Governorate.Aquestionaire was designed and distributed to a
random simple of 148 date palm growers of both provences. Then the
questionaire was collected and date were analysed and display as
precentages, frequency tables , means , standard diviation , simple
correlations, and Qai square. The mean results of this study were the
following: 1- Low knowledge level. of most studied farmers of technical skills needed
to grow and produce date palm specially in the the areas of date palm
propagation, pests and diseases, paking or harvesting , postharvest
treatments of dates, and lack of some skills in the areas flowering,
polination and fruit set. 2- Percentage of growers utilizing television programs to improve their
knowledge was 92.27% while those seeking guidance from agricultural
extension specialists represented 74.32 %. 3- The two variables, number of children and agricultural communication,
were positively correlated while the two other variables namely the type
of ownership and non agricultural jobs, were not correlated with their
knowledge of date palm cultural practises. 4- The educational status, social status and date palm by - product
utilization were correlated with the growers knowledge of date palm
production practises , it was found that Qai square values or such
variables were 18.845,23.402, and 13.023 respectively ( at 0.01 level ).