ممارسات زراع محصول الأرز للتغلب على مشكلة نقص مياه الري بمحافظة كفر الشيخ

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This research aims mainly to identify the practices of rice growers to overcome the problem of irrigation water shortage in Kafr El-Sheikh Governorate, to identify the correlational relationships between the studied independent variables and the degree of practices of rice growers, and to determine the contribution of each of the studied independent variables related to the significant correlation in explaining the total variance that occurred in the degree of application of rice growers surveyed with practices to overcome the shortage of irrigation water problem, in addition to their most important proposals to overcome this problem.

The Kafr El-Sheikh governorate was chosen as an area to conduct this research, as it is one of the main governorates in cultivating the rice crop, which represents the second place in the cultivation of this crop.

This was followed by selecting three districts randomly, and the selection resulted in the districts of El-Hamoul, Riyad, and Baltim, then a village was randomly selected from each district among the previous district were Abuskin, Al-Raseef, and New Al-Manshia, respectively, and by contacting the Agricultural Administration in each of the previous districts to view the inventory lists.

It was found that the number of rice growers in these villages reached 2,100, and a sistimatic random sample of 10% from the farmers of the three villages was selected, so the sample size were 210 respondents, including 80 respondents from Abuskin village, 70 respondents from Al-Raseef village, and 60 respondents from Al-Mansheya Al-Jadida village.

Data through the interview questionnaire during the month of February 2020.

Frequency tables, percentage, mean, standard deviation, simple and multiple correlation coefficient, partial and multiple regression coefficient (step-wise) to analyzing the data and presenting the results.

The results of the research are summarized as follows: -It was found that more than 53% of the surveyed rice farmers had a low level in terms of practices for overcoming the lack of irrigation water, and that level was medium among more than 32% of them, while this level was high among more than 14% of the farmers.

-The independent variables together were explained by 43% of the total variation in the degree of practices of the rice crop farmers surveyed to overcome the lack of irrigation water, and the most contributing variables were: Ambition level 26.1%, 7.8% to the educational level variable, 5.3% to the attitude to word the agricultural extension variable, 2.2% to the age variable, and 1.6% to the agricultural holding capacity variable.

It was found that there are seven proposals for the researched rice farmers to overcome the lack of irrigation water from their viewpoint, arranged in descending order as follows: The necessity of expanding the work of raising stations for agricultural drainage water to mix it with the Nile water for use in irrigation of the rice crop grown at the end of the canals and drains at a rate of 78.6%, and new varieties of rice that tolerate drought and be early ripening with high yields of 70.5%, and the work of plants to treat agricultural wastewater It is healthy to reuse it again in irrigating the rice crop 54.8%, the necessity of clearing the main canals and removing weeds from them, and doing regular maintenance of the openings on them 46.7%, and the necessity for farmers to adhere to the paddy areas determined by the Ministries of Agriculture and Irrigation 26.2, and to search for other sources to irrigate the rice crop far from River Nile water, such as extracting well water by pumping 16.2% pumps, and the necessity of regular and regular maintenance of the valves of the developed irrigation project so that there is no significant loss of irrigation water in the drainage of 9.5%.