سلوك الزراع في مجال تنمية و صيانة التربة الزراعية في محافظة الفيوم

Abstract EN

The main objectives of the study were.

to identify of knowledge, and implementation level of farmers related to recommendations of development and maintenance of soil, determine the most important variable affecting it, identify the sources from which farmers derive their information, identify the most important problems faced farmers and their sugessiens to solve it.

The study was conducted in Fayoum governorate Fayoum and Tamiy districts were selected according to the salted area.

Nasria and Dimashin were selected from Fayoum.

destrict and Qasr Rashwan and Al-Mazatli were selected from Tamia district.

A random sample of 300, farmers were selected according to are thmatic mean (179 farmers from Fayoum district and 121 from Tamiya).data were collected using the questionnaire by interview with farmers Finding indicated that the participation of 61.7% of farmers in the environmental activities was low, and the main source of information for 66.6% of formers was the personal experience.

Findings showed that knowledge level of farmers was low related to irrigation, settlement and o fertlization as the percentage of farmers were 43.3% , 48.3% and 43.34 respectively, and was 65% for farming methods.

In relation to the implementation level, it was almost near to the knowledge level,so it reached to 40% , 41.7% and 40.7% in irrigation, settlement , fertilizer and farming methods.

Findings indicated that the most important variables affecting the knowledge level were: participation in the environmental activities, relative importance of the recommendations , exposure to information sources, life level, age and meetings attendance.

Also the cosmopolitimess, family size, relative importance of recommendations and life level were the most important variable affecting the implementations level.

All farmers had problems in agricultural soil, and 53.3% of them had irrigation problems.

In addition, 36.6% % of farmers have drainage problems