The research amid basically at awareness degree of respondents for the
reasons leading to desertification, identify implementation degree of reducing
desertification methods, identify the most important variables affecting both
weariness and implementation degree of reducing desertification methods , to
identify the farmers problems faced by the respondents.
Research was conducted Matrouh governorate, a sample of (168)
respondents ( 5% of the population), has been selected. Data were collected by
a questionnaire specially prepared to achieve the research objectives, the
statistical tools included: percentage and the arithmetic mean, standard
deviation, and coefficient of the simple Pearson correlation and multiple
regression.
The most important findings were:
- That 25.6% of respondents with a low degree of understanding of the causes
of desertification, and 29.1% of those with an average degree of perception, and
that 45.3% had high degree of perception.
- Results showed that the awareness degree of respondents to the causes of
desertification significant were of correlation at the moral level of 0.01 to each
of: Capacity animal possessory, and the degree of tribal leadership, and degree
of adherence to custons and tribal traditions, while she it was with a moral
relationship at the moral level of 0.05 to size of land holding, attitudes towards
agricultural extension, degree of exposure to information sources and there
were no significant positive or negative relationship with the rest of the
independent variables, namely: age, the degree of the respondent's education.
- It turns out that the percentage contribution of variables in explaining the
contrast kidney respondents to the causes of desertification were significant at a
level of 0.01 and that the contribution ratio gathered together in the predictive
power of change is 52.6%, of which 35.3% is attributable to the degree of tribal
leadership, 9.5% to the point of belonging to the community of tribal, 4 0.9% to
the degree of adherence to tribal customs and traditions, to 2.9% and the degree
of the trend toward extension.
- Results showed that 37.2% of respondents with low implementation of the
terms of the reduction of desertification, and 34.3% of them are middleimplement, and that 28.5% of them
with high implementation.
- Results show that the degree of implementation of agriculture to the terms of
the reduction of desertification were of a positive correlation at the moral level
of 0.01 both: both: Capacity animal possessory, and the degree of leadership < br />tribal, and the degree of belonging to the community tribal, and the degree of
adherence to the customs and traditions of the tribal and the degree of exposure
to sources of information, while The relationship spirits at a level of 0.05 with a
degree trend towards agricultural extension, while it appears that there were
significant relationship with the age variable and the degree of education of the
respondent, the area of agricultural holdings.
- It turns out that the percentage contribution of these variables in explaining
the varition for the implementation of the respondents to the terms of the
reduction of desertification were significant at a level of 0.01 and that the
contribution ratio gathered together in the predictive power of change is 47.2%,
of which 32.1% is attributable to the degree of tribal leadership, and 9.7% to a
degree belonging to the tribal community, and 5.4% to the degree of exposure
to sources of information.
- results indicated that the most important problems facing respondents are: to
act holdover from wells and springs, insufficient of water management, and
insufficient of drainage network condition, high level ground on farms, high
salinity and alkalinity of soil, lack of agricultural extension services.