The research aimed at determining the attitudes of the farmers respondents
towards the return of the mandatory of agricultural rotation, determining the
relationship between the independent variables and the farmers attitudes, and
determining the contribution of each related independent variables in explaining
the variation in the farmers attitudes towards the return of the mandatory
agricultural rotation.
The study was done in minia governorate which were selected randomly,
three randomly centers were also selected and one village from each center was
selected randomly to be located in the north, the middle and the south of the
governorate, these villages were: Elgendia in Beni mazar, Mahdya in Elminia, and
Nazlet Tona in Mallawy.
A sample of 175 respondents representing 10% of the total farmers were
selected randomly and systematically from the records of agricultural
cooperatives in the selected villages.
Data was collected through personal interviews by using pretested
questionnaire in June 2016. Frequencies, percentages simple correlation, chisquare , compatibility coefficient and multiple correlation , and regression were
used to present and analyze data statistically.
The results showed that:
65%of the respondents had a high level of attitudes towards the return of
the mandatory agricultural rotation, while 18.9%of them had a moderate level of
attitudes, and 16%had a low level of attitudes.
The result showed that there was significant relation between the level of
education, the grown area, the crop, the membership of organization, the source of
information and the farmers' attitudes towards the return of mandatory agricultural
rotation. The results showed that there were three variables that contributed by
12.7% in explaining the variation in the farmers' attitudes towards mandatory
agricultural rotation which were age, education and grown area.