The research aimed to identify the problems facing agricultural workers and suffering degree from it, respondents' satisfaction with the working and housing conditions in the research area, determining the relationship between the studied independent variables and existence degree of the studied problems and suffering degree.
The research was conducted at Al-Hamam district in Matrouh Governorate on a sample of 357 respondents from seasonal agricultural labor migrating to the villages of graduates, questionnaire was used with personal interview to collect data, it was analyzed statistically using frequencies, percentages, weighted average, and the simple correlation coefficient for Pearson using the SPSS program.
The most important results were as follows:
The age mode of respondents is in the age group (17-29 years), more than half (52.4%) have never been married, more than three-fifths (63%) do not own agricultural land, over half (51.3%) fall into the average monthly income group.
- The highest percentage of respondents falls in the category of mediating level due to the existence of problems related to employment, work, and housing, respectively, their percentage was 51.5%, 41.8%, and 47.9%, while the percentage of respondents in the intermediate level category to suffer from these problems was 49.9%, 41.5%, and 40.1%, respectively.
- More than two-thirds of respondents have an average level of satisfaction with working conditions, and 43.4% have an average level of satisfaction with housing conditions.
- A significant relationship was found between age, monthly income, working years in agriculture, and the degree of their suffering from problems.