Problems facing the rural women in production of clean and safe milk in Kafr El- Sheikh Governorate Noha Elzahy Elsaid Hassan

The main aims of this study was to identify 1) the problems facing the rural women in production of clean and safe milk in the research area of Kafr El- Sheikh Governorate, 2) the relations between independent variables and specified of each of the problems affecting the production of clean and safe milk in the research area, and 3) some suggestions that respondents believes - from their point of view to help the rural women to overcome the problems they face in the production of clean and safe milk. The research was conducted in three villages selected randomly from three different districts in Kafr El-Sheikh governorate. These villages are; El Tayfa (Kafr El Sheikh District), Mehalet Deyai (Desouk District), and El Kom El Tawil (Beila District).A random sample of 217 respondents (99 from El Tayfa, 66 from Mehalet
Deyai, and 52 from El Kom El Tawil) was selected based on the equation of Krejcie and Morgan 1970. Data were collected by using personal questionnaire. The mean, simple correlation coefficient of Pearson, alpha coefficient, frequencies, and percentage were used for analyzing the data.