Planning of Extension Program for Developing Date Palm Farmers at El-Burulus District in Kafr El-Sheikh Govemorate

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

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This research was mainly aimed at building a pilot program to meet the marketing and marketing needs of the farmers of Palm El-Burl in Kafr El-Sheikh governorate. Kafr El-Sheikh governorate was selected to conduct this study as one of the leading governorates in date palm cultivation. The center was selected as the highest center in the province of Kafr El-Sheikh and the cultivation of date palms, The comprehensive study was conducted through a comprehensive inventory of date palm plantations at Al-Borolus Center in all agricultural cooperatives affiliated to it. The number of associations in the Boroulus Center reached 10, and the number of palm trees was 8954. The number of date palm trees with 2,634 farmers, the number of productive palm trees with 155 thousand palm trees, the Shehabiya Society, the number of date palm trees with 1,168 farmers, and the number of fruitful palm trees with about 24 thousand palms. The size of the sample was determined using the Krejcie and Morgan equation. The sample size was 350 respondents with 243 respondents from the Baltim Association and 107 respondents from the Shehab Society.

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  • Receive Date: 19 September 2017
  • Accept Date: 07 November 2017

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