المردود الاجتماعي والاقتصادي للمستفيدين من برنامج إدارة المياه الجوفية وتطوير الري بمحافظة الوادي الجديد

Abstract EN

The research aimed to identify the personal characteristics of the respondents who benefited from the activities of the groundwater management and irrigation development program in the research area, to determine the degree of their social and economic benefit from its activities, to determine the relationship between them separately and the independent variables studied, and to identify the obstacles that prevent them from benefiting from the activities of that program.

the research was conducted in the Farafra region in the new valley governorate, on a simple random sample of 121 respondents, who were determined using the Krejsi and Morgan equation from among the farmers who benefited from the activities of the program in question.

results and data analysis, frequencies, percentages, the arithmetic mean, mean score, and Pearson's simple correlation coefficient measure, using the program (SPSS) for the statistical packages for social sciences through the computer.

the most important results were as follows: 39.7% of the total respondents fall into the medium category of social benefit from the activities of the studied program, and 31.4% of them fall into the high category, while 28.9% of them fall into the low category, with a medium degree of 2.21 degrees, as it was clear from the results that 42.1% of the total respondents fall into the medium category for economic benefit from the activities of the studied program, and 30.6% of them fall into the low category for it, while 27.3% of them fall into the high category, with an average score of 1.98 degrees.

the results also indicated that the respondents mentioned nine obstacles that limit their benefit from the activities of the studied program, the most frequent of which were: insufficient technical support for some of the activities implemented by the program, and well malfunctions.

frequent and slow maintenance procedures for previously developed wells the program, and the delay in providing the necessary financing for the requirements for implementing the activities of the program.

the research recommended some recommendations, including: working on holding informal meetings between farmers and those responsible for implementing the groundwater management and irrigation development program to present their inquiries themselves, and to clarify possible solutions and points of view regarding the problems they face to provide a supportive climate increases their conviction towards the desired behavior.