EGYPTIAN CLOVER FARMER’S KNOWLEDGE AND IMPLEMENTION OF TECHNICAL RECOMMENDATION FOR INTEGRATED CONTROL FOR DODDER WEED IN KOM HAMADA DISTRICT ELBEHERA GOVERNORATE
Abstract: The objectives of this research were to indentify the damag caused dodder weed of Egyptian clover crop and ways spread, to indentify knowledge level of respondents of technical recommendations for integrated control of dodder weed, as well as indentify implemention level of respondents of technical recommendations for integrated control for dodder weed, and finally to indentify proplems facing respondents in this field.
A well prepared and pretested questionnaire was used to collect data for this research, through personal interviews from systematic random sample amounted to 150 respondents in Kom Hamada district (three villages were selected randomly: Netma, Bareem, Beban). Frequencies, Percentages, arithmetic mean, standard devision were used to the data analyses and present the data.
The most important findings of this research were :
1- The most damage caused dodder weed of Egyptian clover crop were: reduce the amount of Egyptian clover crop (100%), and reduced quality of Egyptian clover seeds (46.7%), depriving the Egyptian clover of light and air (34.0%).
2- The most important ways to spread dodder weed in the land of Egyptian clover are: seeds contaminated with dodder weed (94.7%), and herding sheep and cattle (88.7%), and transportation of agricultural soils (78.7%), and manure decomposition is complete (73.3%), machines crops service (65.3%).
3- 79.4% of respondents had moderate and low levels of knowledge about technical recommendations for intergrated control of dodder weed.
4- 93.4% of respondents had moderate and low levels of implemention about technical recommendations for integrated control of dodder weed.
5- The most important problems facing the respondents in the field of integrated control of dodder weed were: the small number of agricultural extension agents specializing in the field of integrated control for dodder weed (92.0%), and not to follow the agricultural cycle in the search area (90.7%), and lack of awareness adequate by the agricultural extension to farmers in the field of integrated control of dodder weed (89.3%), and lack of outlets seed Egyptian clover certified free from the seeds of dodder weed (86.7%), and lack of availability of specialized pesticides to combat weeds Hamoul Agricultural Society (81. 3%), low knowledge of Egyptian alfalfa growers of the importance of integrated control for dodder weed (72.7%), and lack of releases guidance in the field of integrated control of dodder weed(72.0%).

Publication year 2016
Pages 127- 149
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Author(s) from ARC
Publication Type Journal
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