سلوك الزراع في إنتاج محاصيل آمنة من الخضر و الفاكهة ببعض قرى منطقة النوبارية

الملخص EN

This study aimed to identify the behavior of farmers towards the safe production of vegetable and fruit crops.

The study is based on the nature of correlation and regression between the level of their behavior to produce crops safely (dependent variable) and all studied independent variables.

Also, the study aimed to identify most important obstacles faced respondents in the production of these crops .The study was conducted on the sample size of 149 farmers/respondents in Nubaria Region, which spread over three villages namely Tawfiq al-Hakim, Mohamed Refaat, and Safa and Marwa.

Data was collected in the field using questionnaire during personal interviews.

In order to quantify the data and making that more meaningful, it was described through frequency tables, percentages, arithmetic means and standard deviation.

Data was also subjected to statistical analysis like simple correlation coefficient and the coefficient of multiple regression upward (step-wise).The most significant finding of study indicates that a very low percentage of respondents (32.9%) from the productive class, adopts safe behavior in their crop production.

However, there is a positive correlation at the level of probability (0.01) between the degree of behavior of respondents to produce safely (independent variable) and the dependent variables like: the number of years of education of respondent, family, the degree of exposure to the media, degree of contact agents of change, degree of modern knowledge, and the degree of environmental and health awareness, at the level of probability (0.05) with the animal possession.

However, statically no relationship was observed among the independent variables like: age of the respondent, and the pesticide consumption index.

It was also noticed that four independent variables contributed (35.1%) towards the degree of safe productive behavior of the respondents.

The most important problems expressed by respondents include: VWXYZ[\]^_`XaVWY\Zb^\cXbZ[V[dXb+ef1fg hW[]Wca[Ves of pesticides (28.2%), pesticides are not available at agricultural cooperatives (10.7%), and the ineffectiveness of pesticides (9.4%).