The research was conducted to identify implementation degree of
citrus growers to the technical recommendations of citrus production, to
determine the relationship between growers' degree of implementation to the
recommendations and the studied independent variables, to define the
contribution degree of the independent variables in explaining the total
variation for growers implementation of the technical recommendations for
citrus crop production and to recognize the most crucial problems that were
facing the respondents and the suggestions to solve such problems at the study
area.
To achieve the research objectives, data were collected from citrus
growers at the study area during August 2016 from a systematic randomized
sample of 240 respondents via a questionnaire form that was initially prepared
and pretested before the interview, some statistical methods were used to
analyze the data i.e. frequency tables, the Percentage, the Mean, Standard
Deviation, Step Wise and regression Correlation analysis pattern.
Results showed that (36 %) of the study sample fell under the low
category of implementation, (29 %) came under the average category of
implementation, whereas (35%) were of the high category of implementation.
Results indicated a significant relationship at significance level of
(0.01) between the holding size grown with citrus crop, years of experience in growing citrus, degree of opinion leadership, degree of citrus growers'
implementation of the technical recommendations, meanwhile there was a
significant relationship at significance level of (0.05) between: level of
respondents' education, degree exposing to the agricultural information
sources, attitude toward agricultural extension and degree of respondent
growers' implementation to the technical recommendations of citrus crop < br />production, whereas there was no significant relationship between the
variables: age, size of agricultural holding, years of experience in agricultural
work and respondent growers' degree of implementation to the technical
recommendations of citrus crop production.
Results showed three (3) independent variables affecting the study
sample's degree of implementation to the technical recommendation of citrus
crop production, all together explain around (51.4 %) of the total variation of
such degree, the variables were ordered according to their importance as
follows: size of agriculture holding grown with citrus crop, years of
experience in growing citrus crop and degree of opinion leadership.