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The Effect of Livestock Deterioration on Some Social Aspects of Rural People in Behaira Governorate

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Last updated: 24 Dec 2024

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The research aimed to determine the respondents knowledge degree about the reasons that led to the livestock deterioration, determine the impact of the livestock deterioration on the following social aspects: the value of agricultural work, professional shift, the value of agricultural land, the value of participation and cooperation between rural people, determine the relationship between the respondents studied independent variables and their opinion on the occurrence degree of each of the studied social effects, and to identify the respondents' suggestions to improve livestock in the research area. The research was conducted on a sample of 380 respondents from livestock breeders in Behaira governorate, data were collected using a questionnaire from December to February 2023, it was unloaded, classified, quantitatively processed, and statistically analyzed using numerical tables, frequencies, percentages, weighted average, and simple correlation coefficient. The results were as follows: The respondents' knowledge ratio about the reasons of the livestock deterioration ranged between 72.4% and 92.1% as a maximum. More than two-thirds of the respondents (68.6%) came in the high level category of livestock deterioration as whole. The highest percentage of respondents in the high level of change category in each of the agricultural work value, vocational transformation, the land value, and the participation and cooperation value in light of the livestock deterioration. There is a positive correlation between the variables of the size of agricultural tenure, the animal tenure, informal social participation, the respondents' ambition, and their adherence degree to the agricultural work value and professional shift There is a negative correlation relationship at a significant level of 0.01 between the size of agricultural tenure, the animal tenure, informal social participation, and the respondents housing condition, and the change in the value of participation and cooperation. The most important respondents' suggestions to improve livestock: establishment of a veterinary laboratory unit in the village, the organizing of veterinary convoys to treat livestock, the provision of fodder in terms of expanding the cultivation of yellow corn and soybean crops, and the fodder support for small breeders. The research ended with a set of recommendations based on its results.

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10.21608/ajar.2023.352855

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A. S. I.

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Alkholy

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Agricultural Extension and Rural Sociology Department, Faculty of Agriculture, -Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt.

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M. A.

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Attia

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Agricultural Extension and Rural Sociology Department, Faculty of Agriculture, -Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt.

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M. A.

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Ramadan

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Agricultural Extension and Rural Sociology Department, Faculty of Agriculture, -Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt.

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F. I. H.

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Bassiuni

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Agricultural Extension and Rural Sociology Department, Faculty of Agriculture, -Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt.

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48

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3

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46331

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2023-10-01

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2024-05-01

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2023-10-01

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641

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654

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1110-1563

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2786-0051

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Al-Azhar Journal of Agricultural Research

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The Effect of Livestock Deterioration on Some Social Aspects of Rural People in Behaira Governorate

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24 Dec 2024