المتطلبات الإرشادية لمزارعي التفاح في محافظة عجلون في الأردن و علاقتها ببعض المتغيرات

Abstract EN

The aim of this study was to determine the extension requirement levels of apple farmers' in Ajloun Governorate in agricultural practices and to study the relationship between the extension requirement levels and some independent variables such as personal and professional characters of farmers.

A random sample of 104 farmers was interviewed individually.

Using a questionnaire included two parts, first was the personal and professional information of the farmers and the second was a measure of extension requirements in the apple areas.

Several methods of statistical analysis were used for data analysis; t-test was used to test the hypothesis and to determine the relationship between dependent and independent variables.

Results showed that, three categories for extension requirement levels were; low (<34) points, medium (34-69) points and high (> 69) points.

It was found that 19.2%, 63.5%, and 17.3% of farmers were located in the low, medium, and high levels, respectively.

Ranking levels of the farmers requirements in the themes according to the varieties, fertilization, plant protection, and pruning, with the relative importance of the averages; (54%), (42%), (41%) and (36%), respectively.

A significant relationship between extension requirement levels and the age, educational level and holding size were obtained, on the other hand no significant differences were observed between these levels and each of the family size, holding type, experience years and exposure to information sources.

Results of this study recommended that; agricultural extension must take extra role for; education and a wariness of apple farmers and transfer of the agricultural technology to them, through preparing scientific and practical plans includes explanation of this results according to requirement levels of farmers working in the study area.