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Farmers' knowledge of the most important diseases affecting Cattle and how to prevent and treat them at Kafr El-Sheikh Governorate

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Last updated: 03 Jan 2025

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Economic

Abstract

This research mainly aimed to identify the knowledge of the farmers surveyed about the most important diseases that affect livestock and how to prevent and treat them in Kafr El-Sheikh Governorate on a sample of 220 respondents. The necessary data to achieve the research objectives were collected using a questionnaire form with a personal interview. Percentages, arithmetic mean, standard deviation, simple correlation coefficient, and multiple regression coefficient were used to analyze the data of this research. The most important results were: The results showed that about 54%, about 55%, about 75%, about 54%, and about 63% of the farmers surveyed had low and medium knowledge of the most important diseases that affect livestock and how to prevent and treat them, and the general animal health specifications that must be available when purchasing it, and infectious diseases (bacterial), parasitic diseases, and non-infectious diseases (internal diseases) respectively, and that the variables included in the research combined are related to the degree of knowledge of the farmers surveyed about the most important diseases that affect livestock and how to prevent and treat them as a dependent variable with a correlation coefficient of 0.501, which is a value that was proven significant at the probability level of 0.01 based on the calculated value of 4.547. The results also indicate that the independent variables combined explain 25.1% of the variance in the dependent variable based on the value of the coefficient of determination R2.

DOI

10.21608/jsas.2024.316426.1481

Keywords

Farmers', Knowledge, of the, most important, diseases, affecting Cattle, and how to prevent, and treat them, at Kafr El-Sheikh Governorate

Authors

First Name

Ahmed

Last Name

Abdullah

MiddleName

M.

Affiliation

Agricultural Economics Dept., Agricultural Extension Branch, Faculty of Agriculture - Kafr El-Sheikh University, Egypt

Email

aboyousef1979@yahoo.com

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First Name

Samaa

Last Name

El-Bbarky

MiddleName

F.

Affiliation

Agricultural Extension and Rural Development Research Institute, Sakha, Agricultural Research Center, Egypt

Email

samaabarky@gmail.com

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First Name

Mahmoud

Last Name

El- Naggar

MiddleName

E.

Affiliation

Agricultural Economics Dept., Agricultural Extension Branch, Faculty of Agriculture - Kafr El-Sheikh University, Egypt

Email

basuoinymahmoud4@gmail.com

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Volume

50

Article Issue

4

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51701

Issue Date

2024-12-01

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2024-08-28

Publish Date

2024-12-01

Page Start

481

Page End

493

Print ISSN

2536-9571

Online ISSN

2536-958X

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https://jsas.journals.ekb.eg/article_393230.html

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364

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Publication Title

Journal of Sustainable Agricultural Sciences

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https://jsas.journals.ekb.eg/

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Farmers' knowledge of the most important diseases affecting Cattle and how to prevent and treat them at Kafr El-Sheikh Governorate

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23 Dec 2024