دراسة وتقييم اتجاه مزارعي منطقة المرج نحو الإرشاد الزراعي

الملخص EN

This research aimed mainly at studying the attitude of the farmers of al-marj region towards agricultural extension, by : determining the degree of attitude of the respondent farmers towards agricultural extension, and identifying the relationship between the attitude of the surveyed farmers towards agricultural extension and some of their personal characteristics that distinguish them, and identifying the most important problems they face.

farmers when dealing with agricultural extension and proposals to solve them, and field data were collected during the months (4, 5) of 2021 ad from the marj area, by personal interview of a random sample of the farmers surveyed consisting of (150) farmers, using a questionnaire form prepared according to the objectives of this study after it was initially tested and the necessary modifications were made to it.

frequency tables, percentages, the arithmetic mean, and pearson's simple correlation coefficient were used.

to display and analyze the data, the most important and most important results of the study were: 1- the majority of the surveyed farmers had a negative and neutral attitude towards agricultural extension in the research area, with a percentage of 86.7%.

2- there is a significant correlation between the attitude of the surveyed farmers towards agricultural extension as a dependent variable, and the personal characteristics studied as the following independent variables: social status and educational status at a probabilistic level (0.01), where the values were (0.35, 0.19), respectively.

3- there is a significant correlation at a probabilistic level (0.05) between the attitude of the respondent farmers towards agricultural extension and their following studied personal characteristics: social participation, and the main occupation of the respondent, where the values were: (0.24, 0.41), respectively.