The obstacles facing agricultural development from the view point of agricultural employees in Salah al-Din Governorate

Abstract EN

The objective of the research was to identify the level of obstacles facing agricultural development from the point of view of the agricultural employees in the governorate of Salah Al-Din, and then the order of obstacles and paragraphs according to the relative importance of each, as well as finding the correlation between the level of constraints and a number of independent variables.

The research included all agricultural employees in the Directorate of Agriculture of Salah Al-Din, Governorate and its affiliated population of (277) employees, a random sample of which was elected by 50%, after the exclusion of the initial sample of (27) employees.

Thus, the research sample consists of (125) agricultural employees.

The results of the study showed that the most (82%) of respondents think that the general level of obstacles to agricultural development in Salah al-Din governorate is average and tends to rise.

And the field of extension work ranked first in the order of areas of agricultural development according to the importance of an average of (113.32), while the field of plant production ranked last with an average of (70.61).

The results also showed a significant correlation between the level of obstacles and the level of education, number of years of service, sources of information, attitude towards agricultural development, participation in training courses.

The results showed no significant correlation between the level of disability and specialization .