A Study of Some Variables Related To Farmers Knowledge and Practices of The Post Harvesting Processes of Tomato Crop

Abstract: One of the major problems that resulted from over-population is the raising demand for food, which in turn caused what so called the " Food Gap". Narrowing this gap only occur through scientific solutions that aim to raise the food productivity by developing agricultural production process taking all the stages into consideration. A very effective way to raise food supply is to reduce the loses in agricultural production. The importance of vegetable as a whole, and Tomatoes in specific for local consumption, food industry or exportation stemmed from their role as a common component in human food.
Speaking about the software of Tomatoes' production; Agricultural Extension is consider one of the main institutions that works to defuse knowledge and make farmers aware of the up-to-date and valid recommendations concerning Tomatoes post harvesting processes.
Despite that there are rather few studies that aimed to measure farmers' knowledge and practices concerning loses reduction in Tomatoes post harvesting processes.
Hence, this study aims to identify the personal and situational variables affecting knowledge and practices' change concerning Tomatoes post harvesting process, also to examine the percent these variables contribute to explain farmers knowledge and practices.

The objectives of the study is to :
1. Identify interviewees knowledge concerning Tomatoes post harvesting process
2. Identify interviewees practices concerning Tomatoes post harvesting process
3. Examino the relationship between farmers' degree of knowledge concerning Tomatoes post harvesting process and the each of the following variables : .
a. Age
b. Educational status
c. Interviewees' degree of ambitious for their kids' education and future profession.
d. Interviewees' standard of living.
e. Farm size.
f, Area of Summer Tomatoes planted.
g, Average yield of Summer Tomatoes.
h. Degree cosmopolitans .
i. Degree change agent contacting.
j. Degree opinion leadership.
k. Degree exposure to some mass media.
I. Degree informal social participation.
m. Degree extension activities participation .
n. The amount of Tomatoes loses .
o. Degree fatalism .
p. Interviewees' attitude toward some Agricultural innovation degree.
q. Achievement motivation degree.
4. Determine pencentag of contrbution of the independent variables significantly correlated with the interviewees' knowledge concerning Tomatoes post harvesting process that explains the total variance.
5. Examine the relationship between the degree of interviewees' practices concerning Tomatoes post harvesting process and the studied independent variables.
6. Determine pencentag of contrbution. of the independent variables
significantly correlated with the interviewees' practices concerning
Tomatoes post harvesting process that explains the total variance.
7. identify information sources the interviewees deal with to acquire
knowledge concerning Tomatoes post harvesting process

The study was condacted in three villages of Qualubia district, Quahibia Governorate which were : Nay, Qualube Kibli and Koum Ashfien. The farmers' sample size rated to 270 Tomatoes growers and was determined using "Krejcien and Morgan's" Equation and was drawn using Tomatoes farmers' lists in the villages' coops. The data were collected during August 1995 by interviewing farmers using questionnaire after testing it on 30 fanners in Qualubia Bahari village and make the necessary modifications. The data were analyzed using Average, simple correlation coefficient, and step wise analysis.
Publication year 1997
Availability location Agricultural Extension And Rural Development Research Institute Library Agricultural Research Center – 8, Cairo University St., - Egypt
Availability number 670
Organization Name
Country Egypt
Publisher Name: جامعة الزقازيق – فرع بنها
Place: كلية الزراعة بمشتهر
Author(s) from ARC
Agris Categories Extension
Proposed Agrovoc post harvest;
Publication Type Master Thesis
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