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DETERMINANTS OF FARMERS' ATTITUDES TOWARD FARM LAND MAINTENANCE AND IMPROVEMENT PRACTICES IN SOME VILLAGES IN BEHEIRA, GHARBIA, AND KAFR EL-SHEIKH GOVERNORATES

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This research aimed to determine farmers' attitudes toward farm land maintenance and improvement practices , to test the differences in attitudes between villages, to identify the relative importance of independent variables in explaining variance in the farmers attitudes, and to identify suggestions of farmers that encourage them to improve and maintain farm lan .To achieve the objectives of the research. A systematic random sample of 300 farmers was selected from the three villages of Abo el- Mag, Behir, Mahalla El-Qasab, Kafr El-sheikh, and Moatamedia, Gharbia . Data were collected during May, June 2012 by personal interviews. Means, Variances, Simple correlation and Multiple regression were used for data analysis. The most important results could be summarized as follows: 1- Approximately one half of the respondents had positive attitudes toward farm land improvement and maintenance practices, While the other half of respondents had neutral or negative attitudes. 2- The variables of educational level, farming experience sources of the environmental agricultural information, monthly household income, facilities of the community, belonging to the local communit, value of agricultural soil, knowledge about damage caused by environmental practices correlated significantly with attitude toward farm land improvement and maintenance practices. 3- The independent variables, combined explained 54% of the variation in attitude toward farm land improvement and maintenance practices however, there are six variables explain about 52.8% of the variance these are educational level, farming experience community facilities, belonging to the local community, value of agricultural land and the, knowledge about damage caused by environmental pollution practices. 4- The most important suggestions that encourage farmers to improve and maintain farm land are: teaching environmental courses in all levels of education including maintaining farm land (81.41%) raising awareness with the importance of farm land and its value (77.5%), severe sanctions and law inforcement againist misuse and for building on farm land (75.96%) in view of these results, seven recommendations were stated .

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10.21608/ejar.2013.169746

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LAMIA S.

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ALHUSSEINI

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Department of Rural Community Research, Agricultural Extension & Rural Development Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center, Giza, Egypt.

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ALLAM M.

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TANTAWY

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Department of Rural Community Research, Agricultural Extension & Rural Development Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center, Giza, Egypt.

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91

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3

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24028

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2013-09-01

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2013-01-13

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2013-09-01

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1110-6336

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2812-4936

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Egyptian Journal of Agricultural Research

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DETERMINANTS OF FARMERS' ATTITUDES TOWARD FARM LAND MAINTENANCE AND IMPROVEMENT PRACTICES IN SOME VILLAGES IN BEHEIRA, GHARBIA, AND KAFR EL-SHEIKH GOVERNORATES

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22 Jan 2023