تبني الزراع للمستحدثات في مجال إنتاج الأعلاف غير التقليدية في محافظة الإسماعيلية

Abstract EN

The research aimed mainly to determine adoption level of respondents in field of non-traditional fodder in Ismailia Governorate, also to identify the sources of information from which the farmer respondents derive their information of non-traditional fodder Production, as well as to identify the problems facing farmer respondents' adoption in non-traditional fodder Production, and also to identify the suggestions to get rid these problems from their view points.

The research was carried out in the Ismailia Governorate on a sample of 338 farmer respondents represent 12% of the total population (2800) of farms of fodder crops in the studied areas.

Data were processed statistically through numbers, frequencies and percentages.

The main results of the research were as following: - The results indicated that 41.5% and 32.5% of farmer respondents' adoption levels were low and moderate respectively it means that they together represent about three quarters (74%) of all respondents, while about only a quarter (26% of them) have high adoption level.

- The results showed that the most important sources of information from which the farmer respondents derive their information about nontraditional fodder were descending ranked from respondents' view points as follows: relatives, friends, and neighbors (87.3%), television (85.8%), merchants of fodder and seeds (83.1%)), and radio (82.8%) respectively.

- according to the extension services in the field of non-traditional feed production visits by the field change agent to provide advice to the farmer in the field of non-traditional feed production, visit the farmer to the agricultural advisor in the library to provide knowledge about non-traditional feed, visits of the agricultural guide to the farm house to provide advice in the field of non-traditional feed, In addition, there are specialized training courses for the production of feedstuffs, and the development of non-traditional feed production fields in percentages ranging from 22.5% to 42.9% of the respondents.

- The results revealed that the most important problems facing farmer respondents in adoption of non-traditional fodder production innovations were: lack of agricultural extension agents (87.3%), lack of specialists in feeds' production (86.4%), shortage of training in applying new experiences on feeds' production (83.1%), low knowledge about producing non-traditional fodder (82.8%), shortage of skills concerning producing of non-traditional fodder (71%)،lack of extension bulletins in non-traditional fodder producing (59.5%), and weakness of the extension programs in field of producing nontraditional fodder (58.9%).