الاحتياجات الإرشادية المعرفية لمزارعي الزيتون في محافظة البلقاء في مجال الآفات الحشرية

الملخص EN

The aim of this study was to determine the knowledge Extension Needs levels of olive farmers for olive insects in the ALBalqa' Governorate/Jordan and study the relationship between the knowledge levels and some independent variables like personal and professional characters of farmers.Randomely selected farmers of 120 were chosen and interviewed individually and subjected for questionnaires by using form prepared by the researchers.

The questionnaire was included tow parts, first was the personal and professional information of the farmers and the second, and was a measure of knowledge extension needs in the olive insects' area.

The data were collected and checked its truth by some experts and other related persons.

For data analysis, replicates, percentages, mean, standard deviations, Pearson and Spearman correlation, and t-test were used that test of hypothesis and determine the relationship between dependent and independent variables.

The most important results were: There was three categories for needs levels according of (Zscores), which were (<-1) points, medium (-1 +1) points and high (> +1) points.

It was found that 19%, 79%, and 22% of farmers were fall down in the low, medium, and high levels respectively.

There was a significant relationship between extension needs level and each of educational level, number of experience years, and information resources.

Also there was no significant relationship between extensions need levels and each of farmer age, and size of farm possession.

Finally, the result of this study recommended that agricultural extension must take extra role for educational and a wariness of olive farmers and transfer the agricultural technology to them through prepare scientific and practical plan include the explanation of this results according to knowledge levels of farmers works in this study ar