تنفيد الزراع للتوصيات الفنية لإنتاج الموالح بالنوبارية

الملخص EN

The research was conducted to identify implementation degree of citrus growers to the technical recommendations of citrus production, to determine the relationship between growers' degree of implementation to the recommendations and the studied independent variables, to define the contribution degree of the independent variables in explaining the total variation for growers implementation of the technical recommendations for citrus crop production and to recognize the most crucial problems that were facing the respondents and the suggestions to solve such problems at the study area.

To achieve the research objectives, data were collected from citrus growers at the study area during August 2016 from a systematic randomized sample of 240 respondents via a questionnaire form that was initially prepared and pretested before the interview, some statistical methods were used to analyze the data i.e.

frequency tables, the Percentage, the Mean, Standard Deviation, Step Wise and regression Correlation analysis pattern.

Results showed that (36 %) of the study sample fell under the low category of implementation, (29 %) came under the average category of implementation, whereas (35%) were of the high category of implementation.

Results indicated a significant relationship at significance level of (0.01) between the holding size grown with citrus crop, years of experience in growing citrus, degree of opinion leadership, degree of citrus growers' implementation of the technical recommendations, meanwhile there was a significant relationship at significance level of (0.05) between: level of respondents' education, degree exposing to the agricultural information sources, attitude toward agricultural extension and degree of respondent growers' implementation to the technical recommendations of citrus crop production, whereas there was no significant relationship between the variables: age, size of agricultural holding, years of experience in agricultural work and respondent growers' degree of implementation to the technical recommendations of citrus crop production.

Results showed three (3) independent variables affecting the study sample's degree of implementation to the technical recommendation of citrus crop production, all together explain around (51.4 %) of the total variation of such degree, the variables were ordered according to their importance as follows: size of agriculture holding grown with citrus crop, years of experience in growing citrus crop and degree of opinion leadership.