تنفيذ الزراع لأساليب المکافحة المتکاملة لحشائش محصول الأرز بمحافظة کفرالشيخ Farmers' Implementation of Integrated Control Methods of Weeds In Rice Yield at Kafr El-Sheikh Governorate

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Dept. of Agric. Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, Kafrelsheikh University

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This research aimed to identify level of farmers implementation of integrated control of weeds in rice yield. The research was conducted in kafr el sheikh governorate considered one of the main governorates of rice yield. It was selected ralandomly three districts (Alreyad, El hamoul, Sidi salem). By the same criterion it was selected three villages from each district. they were (Almothales, El halafy, El handsaa) it was selected systemic random sample amounted to 10% from the farmers of the three villages. so the sample size amount to 208 respondents. The most important results were as follow : 85% of respondents. were low and medium level implementation of integrated control of weeds in rice yield. it was found 6 independent variables explain 33.4% of the variation in the degree implementation of integrated control of weeds in rice yield. Namely: Exposure to information sources degree. Average productivity. Education degree. years of experience in integrated control. Number of family members working in agricultural. Agricultural tenure. It shows that many reasons facing farmers to implementation integrated control of weeds in rice yield: Lack of guidance available on integrated control. High costs of pest control. Lack of efficiency of pesticides.Lack of specialized in the field of integrated control of weeds. Weed prevalence.

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