مشاركة الريفيات في إنتاج و تسويق محصول الفراولة للتصدير في بعض قرى منطقة التحرير بقطاع النوبارية

Abstract EN

The research aims to determine the level of participation of rural women in the process of production and marketing of the strawberry crop for export, and the relationship between the total degree of their participation and each of their independent studied variables, the research was conducted on a regular random sample selected from wives of the strawberry' farmers in the selected villages in Eltahrir sector, which numbered ( 2,320) farmers.

The size of the research sample was amounted to 140 respondents, representing( 6% )of the total population respondents from three villages belonging to Eltahrir sector; they are (Umm Saber, Salah El-Din,and the sons of Menoufiah and Albeheirah) in the Nubariah region, which were selected randomly from the wives of the farmers, The research data were collected by using personal interviewing questionnaire that was prepared to achieve its objectives during the months of December and January 2019/2020, data was quantitatively processed and statistically analyzed by using the mean, standard deviation, Pearson' simple correlation coefficient, tabular presentation of numbers, and percentages was used to discusse the results.

The most important results were as follows: 1- More than three quarters of the respondents (86.4%), their participation was moderate in strawberry production operations for export.

2- three quarters of the respondents (75%), their participation was moderate in the strawberry marketing process for export.

3- The transplantation process came in first rank among the processes which the respondents participate in it, as the percentage of their participation in this process was amounted to 85.7%.

4- There was a significant relationship between the total degree of participation of rural women in the strawberry production process for export and each of the following independent variables studied: respondent' , number of education's years of the respondent, the area cultivated by the strawberry crop, size of agricultural holding for the respondent's family.

5- There was a significant relationship between the total degree of participation of rural women in the process of marketing the strawberry crop for export and each of the following independent studied variables: respondent' Age, number of years of experience in participation of producing and marketing of strawberry, the number of family members working in agriculture.