أهم المتغيرات المؤثرة على اتجاهات صغار الزراع نحو الأعلاف غير التقليدية بمحافظة الفيوم

الملخص EN

The research is mainly aiming at knowing the young farmers attitudes towards the non-traditional feeds and the most effective variables influencing these attitudes.

Also, it is aiming at recognizing the feeds production methods, in addition to identify the services introduced by the agricultural extension department for the young farmers in the field of feeds production.

Also, the most important problems that face the farmers in this field and their proposed solutions were identified and investigated.

This study has been conducted on a sample of 225 young farmers in five villages where the non-traditional feeds project is took place.

These villages were; Siela, El-Roda, Doar-Gibla, Abou-Syer Defeno, and AbouDenkash in El-Fayoum Governorte.

The obtained results revealed that about 56% and 16% of the total sample farmers had positive and neutral attitudes, respectively.

Also, there existed significant differences in the young farmers attitudes who applied the non-traditional feeds idea (T = 15.8 at 0.01 significancy level).

Moreover, the has been found that the most effective variables were; fore warding towards the agricultural in novations, animal wealth, the direction to the agricultural extension and at last the family size or capacity.

However, such variables interpret about 79% of variance degree for the young farmers.

Accordingly, the applied non-traditional feeds by the young farmers were; the treated straw with urea, balanced feeding, rice-straw injected ammonia and treat straw with other components.

It is noticed that the most important services that introduced by the agricultural extension are; meetings, teaching farmers how to prepare the feeds and save the feeds preparing tools.

Finally, it is cleared that the most important problems that face the farmers in the non-traditional feeds were found to be (in acending order); insufficient specified information for the preparation and feeding (61.3%), difficulty for obtaining the ammonia solution and other production tools (53.3%), users unsatsification with the nutritional values (46.6%), high prices of soybean straw (20%), and non-availability of the feeds preparation machines for the farmers (35%).