Document Type : Original Article
Authors
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Dept of Agric. Extension, Fac. of Agric., Kafrelsheikh University
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Extension Program Department, Agricultural Extension & Rural Development Research Institute, Kafr El-Sheikh Egypt
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High student in Dept of Agric. Extension, Fac. of Agric., Kafrelsheikh University
Abstract
This research aimed mainly at identifying rural women's knowledge of the extension recommendations in the field of poultry breeding in some villages of Kafrelsheikh District. The villages of Manshaat Al-Safa, Daqlat, and Sheno were selected in a simple random sample by the basket from among the mother villages of the district, which numbered (24) villages, and the rural women were counted in those villages, reaching (6224) women to represent the comprehensive research, and a simple random sample of 5% was selected from them, and it reached the strength of (311) were surveyed, and the data were processed statistically. The most important results were: The vast majority of the respondents (about 96%) had a low and medium degree of knowledge of the extension recommendations related to poultry breeding, in addition to 1.3% of them were not had these extension recommendations, and that percentage was 30.5%, 73.6%, 84.6%. %, 90.1%, 66.6%, 98.6%, 30.8%, 6.1% in the various stages of poultry breeding, namely: before receiving chicks, buying chicks, receiving chicks, breeding poultry houses, feeding poultry, finally, poultry health care, respectively. It became clear that there were significant differences between the average degrees of knowledge of the respondents in the three research villages. The most important problems they faced in breeding poultry were the early death of chicks by 69%, and the high price of packaging by 58%.
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