Beta
218474

Measuring Adoption, Farmers of Good Agricultural Practices in Assuit Governorate

Article

Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

Subjects

-

Tags

-

Abstract

The main objectives of this research were: developing a framework for the measurement of adoption of agricultural practices, applying this framework to measure farmer adoption of good agricultural practices, determine adoption standards degrees of adopters by using Sigma Scoring, and determine relationship between respondent's adoption and some independent variables.
Simple random sampling was used to select respondents from farmers, the sample size was 100 farmers, Data were analyzed by use of percentage, mean, and multiple regression. An r2 value (0.25) showed that age, level of education, farm size, and membership of society organizations were good predictors of adoption behaviors of farmers, the framework and procedure used in measuring adoption in this research are recommended to other researchers develop measures of adoption.

DOI

10.21608/ajar.2021.218474

Keywords

GAP, Adoption, Sigma Scores

Authors

First Name

M. F.

Last Name

Abd Elsalam

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Agricultural Extension and Rural Sociology Department, Faculty of Agricultural, Al-Azhar University, Egypt

Email

mohamedabdelsalam.4919@azhar.edu.eg

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

M. F.

Last Name

Elnagar

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Agricultural Extension and Rural Sociology Department, Faculty of Agricultural, Al-Azhar University, Egypt

Email

mahmoudelngar.4919@azhar.edu.eg

City

-

Orcid

-

Volume

46

Article Issue

1

Related Issue

31069

Issue Date

2021-06-01

Receive Date

2021-01-18

Publish Date

2021-06-01

Page Start

178

Page End

187

Print ISSN

1110-1563

Online ISSN

2786-0051

Link

https://ajar.journals.ekb.eg/article_218474.html

Detail API

https://ajar.journals.ekb.eg/service?article_code=218474

Order

15

Type

Original Article

Type Code

929

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

Al-Azhar Journal of Agricultural Research

Publication Link

https://ajar.journals.ekb.eg/

MainTitle

Measuring Adoption, Farmers of Good Agricultural Practices in Assuit Governorate

Details

Type

Article

Created At

22 Jan 2023