Knowledge and Attitudes of Cotton Growers awards the Integrated Pest Management in Fayoum Governorate
Abstract: The main objectives of this study were: identify knowledge and attitudes of cotton growers towards the IPM recommendations, identify their characteristics in and out of FFS, determine the relationship between knowledge and attitudes of farmers and the studied variables, knowing the extension services to farmers and finally determine problems which face the cotton growers.
This study was conducted in Fayoum governorate on a random sample reached to 200 farmers (100 farmers were members in FFS. and 100 farmers were not).
Data were collected through personal interviews guided by a questionnaire. Percentages, statistical averages, simple correlation coefficient, T test and step wise multiple regression analysis, were used to analyse the study data to test the integrity of the study hypothesis.
Findings clarified that 91% of respondents had average and high knowledge about IPM recommendation, while only 9% of farmers had low knowledge.
It was also clear that the knowledge of farmers in FFS was higher than those out of it.
Findings also showed that the most affecting variables on the knowledge of respondents were as follows: attitudes towards each of agriculturalal innovations and agricultural extension , and the educational status, these variables totally explained 58% of the variance in the knowledge of cotton IPM recommendations. The results also showed that 72% of farmers, had high and average attitudes compared with 28% had low attitudes towards cotton IPM recommendation. Attitudes of farmers inside FFS was higher than those out.
The most effective variables on farmers attitudes were as follows: attitudes towards agricultural innovations, expousure to information sources, and attidudes towards agricultural extension, all these variables explain 64% of the variance in the farmers attitudes towards IPM recommendations.
Findings also showed that the most important extension services provided to the farmers in descending order were: providing cotton seeds, providing suffient butterfly traps in the cotton fields, spraying pesticides for cotton when neccessarly. Problems facing farmers in decending order were: the low price of cotton, the high price of producation requierments, unavailability of modern spraying machines, low productivity, absence of agricultural rotation.
Publication year 2004
Availability location Agricultural Extension And Rural Development Research Institute Library Agricultural Research Center – 8, Cairo University St., - Egypt
Availability number 665
Organization Name
Country Egypt
Publisher Name: جامعة القاهرة
Place: كلية الزراعة الفيوم
Author(s) from ARC
Agris Categories Extension
AGROVOC
TERMS		 Cotton. Integrated pest management.
Publication Type PhD Thesis
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