Biological yields through agricultural extension activities and services : a case study from Al-Baha region–Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
المؤلفون المشاركون
al-Zahrani, Khudran Hamdan
Baig, Mirza Barjees
Russell, Mark
Hirab, Ahmad Hasan
Dabiah, Abd al-Aziz Thabit Muhammad
al-Zahrani, Khalid Abd Allah
المصدر
Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences
العدد
المجلد 28، العدد 5 (31 مايو/أيار 2021)، ص ص. 2789-2794، 6ص.
الناشر
تاريخ النشر
2021-05-31
دولة النشر
السعودية
عدد الصفحات
6
التخصصات الرئيسية
علم الاجتماع و الأنثروبولوجيا و الخدمة الاجتماعية
الملخص EN
Purpose: This research determines the extent to which farmers benefit from agricultural extension activ- ities and services through realizing higher biological crop yields in the Al-Baha region of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Additionally, the nature of the relationship between the personal, economic and social char- acteristics of farmers and the degree to which they benefit from agricultural extension activities and ser- vices are studied.
Methodology: A simple random sample representing the community of 315 farmers was drawn.
Data were collected through a personal interview with a pre-tested questionnaire to satisfy the objectives of the study.
Data are subjected to analyses and are interpreted in terms of percentages, arithmetic aver- ages, and standard deviations in addition to the simple Pearson correlation coefficients.
Results: The results show that most of the respondents depend on personal experience, friends, family and neighbors, merchants and sellers of agricultural production supplies as sources of agricultural infor- mation for enhanced crop yields.
Multiple regression analysis reveals that both the educational status and the agricultural information sources are important factors that increase farmers benefit from exten- sion activities.
Farmers receive most benefits from the extension activities and services from bringing in foreign workers, conducting field trips to farms, and identifying problems faced by farmers.
Research limitations/implications: The outcome of this questionnaire limits generalization of the findings for other parts of the Kingdom due to geographical and natural resources variations.
Practical implications: The personal and socio-economic characteristics of the surveyed population pro- vide the extension service with insight into their composition – a basis to formulate workable extension programs.
For the extension planners of the area, this effort provides a baseline study and may assist with targeting the appropriate farmers and catering the right solutions to the problems.
Such a study will help devise meaningful extension programs and save time and resources.
Originality/value: Little previous research on the usefulness of the Extension Service has been conducted in the region.
نمط استشهاد جمعية علماء النفس الأمريكية (APA)
al-Zahrani, Khudran Hamdan& Baig, Mirza Barjees& Russell, Mark& Hirab, Ahmad Hasan& Dabiah, Abd al-Aziz Thabit Muhammad& al-Zahrani, Khalid Abd Allah. 2021. Biological yields through agricultural extension activities and services : a case study from Al-Baha region–Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences،Vol. 28, no. 5, pp.2789-2794.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1419105
نمط استشهاد الجمعية الأمريكية للغات الحديثة (MLA)
al-Zahrani, Khudran Hamdan…[et al.]. Biological yields through agricultural extension activities and services : a case study from Al-Baha region–Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences Vol. 28, no. 5 (2021), pp.2789-2794.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1419105
نمط استشهاد الجمعية الطبية الأمريكية (AMA)
al-Zahrani, Khudran Hamdan& Baig, Mirza Barjees& Russell, Mark& Hirab, Ahmad Hasan& Dabiah, Abd al-Aziz Thabit Muhammad& al-Zahrani, Khalid Abd Allah. Biological yields through agricultural extension activities and services : a case study from Al-Baha region–Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences. 2021. Vol. 28, no. 5, pp.2789-2794.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1419105
نوع البيانات
مقالات
لغة النص
الإنجليزية
الملاحظات
Includes bibliographical references : p. 2793-2794
رقم السجل
BIM-1419105
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