The farmers Level of knowledge about field peanut plant with the scientific recommendations related to growing and marketing the crop in Jalawla area in Diyala governorate

Abstract EN

The research goal was to determine the farmer’s knowledge level in growing the peanuts with the scientific recommendations that concerns growing and marketing the crop in Jalawla suburb in Diyala governorate.

Determination the knowledge level in each route of research, as well as descending order of routes according to the relative importance of each route, and find the correlation between the level of knowledge and some independent variables, and to identify the regression relationship between the level of knowledge and the overall factors studied.

Jalawla area in Diyala governorate was chosen to carry out the research, project where the research includes all farmers who grow the peanuts in five villages, the number was 235 farmers, and from them we selected a random sample in rate (50%).

Thus, the rate of (103) respondents, and selected (6) farmers from each village for the first test and they were (30) farmers then excluded from the final research sample.

A questionnaire form was prepared to collect data and it was from two parts.

The first part included a number of questions related to some independent variables related to the respondents.

The second part consisted of (58) paragraphs divided into (9) fields.

The stability of test was measured by split-half method and used the correlation equation of Pearson (0.81), and its representing the stability of half the scale, then it corrected by using the correction equation of Spearman Brown (0.90).

The data were collected from the respondents and analyzed statistically by using SPSS.

The results showed that the knowledge level on peanuts crop was average and tends to rise.

It was found that the knowledge level of the farmers in the field of fertilization is low, The results showed that the date and method of agriculture ranked first and found a moral correlation between the knowledge level and the following independent factors (age, number of years of work, cultivated area, average economic return, sources of information, openness.