فعالية الإرشاد الزراعي في مجال إنتاج الخضر بمنطقتي البيضاء و الحنية-بالجبل الأخضر-ليبيا

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This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of agricultural extension in the area of Vegetables crop production to determine the relationship between the degree of Vegetables as a dependent variable and some independent studied variables, to detect the differences between the degrees of Vegetables in each of the studied regions, for identifying the problems which facing Vegetables growers in the area of production, as well as to identify their suggestions to overcome these problems.

The study was conducted in Elbeid and Alhenya regions as the largest regions of areas cultivated with Vegetables crop.

Data were collected through personal interview using a questionnaire from 358 respondents in the studied areas.

Frequencies, percentages, means, standard deviation, Pearson simple correlation coefficient, t test, were used in the presentation and data analysis.

The most important findings could be summarized as follows: 1- Obtained results showed that 8.4% of the respondents had a low level of knowledge of the studied recommendations, 65.5% were medium, while 26.1% were high.

2- The results revealed that 82.7% of the respondents had low sources of knowledge of the studied recommendations, 4.2% were medium, while 13.1% had good sources of knowledge 3- The results showed that 8.4% of the respondents had alow level of implementation of the studied recommendations, 76.3% were medium, while 15.3% were high.

4- Obtained results showed that 44.7% of the respondents had a low level of benefit from studied recommendations, 51.1% were medium, while 4.3% had high benefit from implementation of the studied recommendations.

5- The results revealed that 13.7% of respondents believed that the extension has low effectiveness in the production of vegetables, 72.4% medium, while 13.9% high effectiveness.

6- There was significant relationship at the level 0.01 between the degree of vegetables and each of the following: degree education, average vegetables productivity, degree of communication with the change agents, degree of leadership, and degree of the attitude towards extension activities, and the relationship was significant at the level 0.05 with the area of agricultural holdings.

7- There was significant difference between the degrees of Vegetables crop production in both of Elbeid and Alhenya regions.

The calculated t value was 3.072 which is more than tabular t value at the level 0.01.

8- The results showed that the most important problems facing Vegetables crop production farmer were: low productivity per hectare, spread of diseases and insects, high prices of seedlings, the difficulty to serve good seedlings, not to follow the agricultural cycle.

9- The main suggestions of the respondents to overcome these problems are: to provide the elements of agricultural production at inexpensive prices, follow the agricultural cycle, good service of the crop, spraying sulfur to reduce pesticide use, and limiting the use of fertilizers and pesticides.