معارف زراع القمح بآثار التغيرات المناخية على إنتاجيتهم المحصولية و كيفية مواجهتها ببعض قرى منطقة العامرية بمحافظة الإسكندرية

Abstract EN

The aim of this research was to identify the level of wheat farmers’ knowledge of the climate change effects on their wheat crop productivity, to identify their implementation level of the technical recommendations to confront the climate change effects, to investigate the correlation between the independent variables and the degree of the level of wheat farmers’ knowledge and their implementation level to confront the climate change, and to arrange the most important obstacles that prevent wheat farmers from facing the climate change effects.

The sample involved 136 wheat farmers, representing 64.8% of the total number of wheat farmers in the research area.

Data were collected during November and December 2020 using a questionnaire by personal interviews.

Furthermore, the statistical methods used in this study are descriptive analysis and correlation coefficients.

The results indicated that the majority of the respondents (62.5%) have a medium level of knowledge of the climate change effects on the wheat crop productivity.

Also, Most of the respondents (66.2%) have a medium level of implementation in how to face the climate change effects on the wheat crop productivity.

Moreover, the results of correlation stated a statistically significant negative association between independent variables (social participation, participation in extension activities, number of information sources) and level of farmers’ knowledge of the climate change effects.

Additionally, the result of correlation coefficient showed a statistically significant positive association between independent variables (respondent age, average wheat productivity, the respondent’ experience in the wheat production) and level of farmers’ implementation in how to face the climate change.

In addition, the most important obstacles were: low irrigation water level, the greed of merchants and their exploitation of farms, scarcity of agricultural labor, and the spread of some agricultural pests.