Farmers adopt methods to preserve the rural environment from pollution in Kafr El-Sheikh Governorate

Mostafa, Ahmed; Mikhail, Mary Bushra; Yadak, Mustafa Sayed

doi:10.21608/jsas.2024.307655.1472

Farmers adopt methods to preserve the rural environment from pollution in Kafr El-Sheikh Governorate

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ Economic agricultural Dept. Fac. of Agri. Kafrelsheikh Uni.

² Agricultural Extension and Rural Development Research Institute - Sakha - Agricultural Research Center

³ Department of Agricultural Economics - Agricultural Extension Branch - Faculty of Agriculture - Kafr El-Sheikh University

10.21608/jsas.2024.307655.1472

Abstract

This research mainly targeted farmers' adoption of methods to preserve the rural environment from pollution in Kafr El-Sheikh Governorate on a sample of 220 respondents. The necessary data to achieve the research objectives were collected using a questionnaire form with a personal interview. Percentages, arithmetic mean, standard deviation, simple correlation coefficient, and multiple regression coefficient were used. The most important results of the study of farmers' adoption of methods to preserve the rural environment from pollution were: It became clear from the previous results that the distribution of farmers surveyed according to their level of adoption of methods to preserve the rural environment from pollution indicates that about 78% of them fell into the category of low and medium adoption, and about 98%, about 94%, about 93%, about 97%, 90%, about 93% and about 95%, 85%, and about 96% of them fell into the category of low and medium adoption of methods to preserve irrigation water from pollution, methods to preserve air from pollution, methods to preserve agricultural soil from pollution, and methods to preserve The home environment from pollution, and methods of preserving the urban space from pollution, and methods of preserving food from pollution, and methods of reducing climate change, and methods that preserve health from diseases common to animals, and methods that preserve family health, as the results indicate that the independent variables combined explain 69.5% of the variance in the dependent variable based on the value of the coefficient of determination R2.

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