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The Current And Future Agricultural Extension Role
For Marketing Of Tomato Crop In Some Villages Of
Ismailia Governorate
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Abstract: The research aims at identifying the current agricultural extension role in marketing the tomato crop from the farmers' point of views, and their prospectives towards the future roles of agricultural extension, the constraints facing farmers in marketing their crop, in addition to determining the differences between the average degrees for the current and future tasks regarding the marketing of tomatoes.
This research was carried out in Ismailia governorate as it represents the first place in terms of production and the fourth rank in terms of cultivated area. A total Sample amounting to 330 respondents was selected randomly among the tomato farmers from the selected villages that reach to 2400 farmers. Data were collected by personal interview using a pre-tested questionnaire during October, 2(106. arithmetic mean, T- Test for pair wise were used of analyze, statistically in addition to frequencies and percentages
The research results can he summarized as follows:
The research results regarding the current role of the extension staff ( planning before planting) showed that the respondents got the benefit being informed about the expected cultivated areas with high degree ( 76.6%), meanwhile it was average for 6 tasks out of 12 roles with a percentage ranged from (53.6%) to (63.3%).
As for the future roles the results showed that the views of the farmers were high for 8 tasks should be performed during the with a percentage ranged from (66.6%) to (80%)
As for the production stage, the result indicated that the agricultural extension staff performed its 15 tasks with high degree, which resemble to the farmers' prospective to the future tasks from the farmers point of views.
As for the marketing, the result shows that the extension staff performed 3 tasks, with a percentage of (63.3%), that are the awareness towards the type of the proper packaging materials in order to maintain its good quality, helping to understand the different marketing system to minimize the costs, make the experience of the specialist and the researcher in the production and marketing of the tomatoes available, while the degree of farmers training on the tomato processing economically, introducing the farmers to the new communication systems with the local and international marketing companies was low at a percentage of (40%) and (43.35%) ,respectively. The general expected tasks of the extension staff were too high.
The research results showed that there are some constraints facings the farmers in marketing their crop as follows, lack of skillful laborers for picking (87%); lack of awareness about the sorting and grading (58.8%), lack of proper packaging materials (90.3%), the far distance of the field from the market ( 92.2%), lack of storage capacity (94.2%), low selling price ( 94.2%), the difficult accessibility of the loans due to the heavy collateral (98.2%).
There were significant differences between the average degrees of the farmers 'views regarding the current and future roles of the extension staff.
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2007
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معهد بحوث الارشاد الزراعي والتنمية الريفية
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El-Sharkia
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Research Journal of Environmental and Society Service
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AGROVOC
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Extension activities.
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tomato marketing;
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Journal
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