Greenhouses’ Farmer’s Knowledge of Technical Recommendation of Integrated Pest Control for Vegetable Crops in El Behira Governorate

Algazzar, Mohamed; El-Melegi, Ebtesam; Lkhawas, Mahmoud

doi:10.21608/jsas.2020.26361.1210

Greenhouses’ Farmer’s Knowledge of Technical Recommendation of Integrated Pest Control for Vegetable Crops in El Behira Governorate

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ Branch of Agricultural Extension- Department of Agricultural Economics -Faculty of Agriculture - Kafrelsheikh University

² Department of Extension Programs Research- Institute of Agricultural Extension-Research - Agricultural Research Center

10.21608/jsas.2020.26361.1210

Abstract

The main objective of this research was to determine the degree of knowledge of the researched farmers on the technical recommendations for integrated pest control of vegetable crops in El Behera governorate, represent This study included all the 496 greenhouse farmers in the selected villages, who possessed the greenhouses, based on the inventory lists of the holders of the greenhouses in the Agricultural Cooperative Society in each of the selected villages. The sample size was determined using the equation (Krejies and Morgan). The sample size reached 217 and summarized The most important results of this research are as follows: 1- It was found that about 79% of the respondents came in the medium or low category in relation to the total cognitive level in the technical recommendations for integrated pest control of vegetable crops, and only 21% of them had a high cognitive level with these recommendations. 2- It became clear that approximately 64%, 65%, 95% and 76%, respectively, of the respondents came with a category of low or medium knowledge level with the technical recommendations of agricultural control, mechanical control, biological control, and chemical control respectively. 3- The results also indicate that the combined independent variables explain 30.5% of the variance in the dependent variable.

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