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The extension requirements of rural women to have hygienic and safety agricultural products of vegetable crops in some Egyptian governorates
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Arabic :
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المتطلبات الإرشادية للمرأة الريفية للحصول على منتج زراعى صحى وآمن من محاصيل الخضر فى بعض محافظات جمهورية مصر العربية
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| Abstract |
The study aimed to identify whether or not the respondents have a complete information of some common concepts related to the production of hygienic and safety Agricultural Products of vegetable crops. determine their application levels of each practice in four studied areas which were: Field production, handling, Storage, and environment, identify the relationship between the application degrees of the recommended practices of the respondents in the previous areas and some independent variables, finally determine the percentage in which each related independent variables participated in explaining the variation in the dependent variable.
Data were collected during the period from October to December 2003 through personal interview by using pretested questionnaire from 300 random sample represents more than 20% of vegetable farmer's wives who are active In producing, handling, and storing vegetable crops in three villages of three governorates which were :Qalyoubia, Monofyia and Fayoum.
Tables, averages, percentages, standard deviations, simple correlation, and step wise test were used to present and analysis data of the study.
The study showed the following results:
-All the respondents have no complete information of all the studied concepts, and few only of them, close to the quarter and not more the third have some information of only five concepts from the seven studied ones.
-The percentages of the practices which the respondents applied in low level were close and relatively high in the four studied areas except handling. The highest percentage was found in the Environment area which was (45.45%), then storage (44.44%), followed by field production (43.75%), while there was no percentage in handling area. That is meant there was no practice applied in low level in handling area.
-The priority for needs to extension support in the four studied areas was differ on the bases of the percentage of practices applied in low and medium levels to all the studied practices in each area. Storage area came in the first, followed by environment, then field production, and handling came in the last.
-The independent variables affecting rural women' s applications degrees of the recommended practices were differ in their importance, and percentages in which they affecting the dependent variables in the four areas of the study.
-The importance of the study return to the importance of the subject it deals with, and its connection with human health and the safely of the environment, it also reveals the practices applied in low level, determine their areas and factors affecting them, the matter will help agric. extension in formulating its plans, kind of programs and the priorities to improve the level of application of such practices.
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| Publication year |
2004
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| Pages |
180-207
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| Organization Name |
Agricultural Extension & Rural Development Research Institute (AERDRI)
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| Country |
Egypt
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| City |
Giza
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| Publisher |
Name:
Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University – Egypt
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| serial title |
Scientific society of agricultural extension
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| Department |
Rural Women in Development Research Department
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| Agris Categories |
Extension
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AGROVOC
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Women.
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| Publication Type |
Journal
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