An Evaluating Study of Some Aspects Regarding Farmer's Cotton Production and Marketing in Some Villages in El-Behera Govemorate
Abstract: This research aimed to determine executive knowledge level concerning cotton farming and gathering recommendations, define presence extent of production ingredients and its prices, availability of cotton farming labourers and their cost, the marketing agencies which farmers deal with and its main marketing services, and the process of determining cotton grade.
Data were collected by personal interviews using a pretested questionnaire during Desember 2006, from a random sample amounted to ISO cotton growers of El-Roda village, El-Mahmodia district, Kelishan village, Etay El-Barood district and Lakana village, Shobrakbit district, El-Behera Govemorate. Means standard deviation, frequencies, percentages were used to present and analyze data statistically.
The results revealed that:
• 75.3% of the respondents with moderate
executive knowledge level concerning cotton
farming technical recommendations, then-
executive knowledge level was high
concerning lining rate, handel getting red of
grasses, planting spaces, adding animal manure
with percentages 95.3% , 89.3% , 82% and
75.3% of the respondents respectively, it was
moderate concerning stop irrigation, digging,
with percentages 70% and 66% of the
respondents respectively, white it was low
concerning the rest
• 98.7% , 75.3% , 57.3% , 55.3% , 36.7% and
36.7% of the respondents with common wrong executive knowledge where they believe that cotton is growing in late date to protect the crop of Boll worms, adding 30-45 kg of phosphate fertilizer (the recommended rate is

22.5 kg) growing cotton crop during May, irregular irrigation, growing cotton crop during April, setting fire cotton straw, respectively.
• 65.3% of the respondents with moderate level
concerning garnering and marketing cotton crop
recommendations, and the rest respondents were
high. 100%, 100%, 98.7% and 92% of the
respondents know execute gathering cotton in two
stages, using new sacks, using threads of cotton
fibres for sewing sacks, not mix the crop of the
first and the second stages respectively.
• 100% , 90.7% and 62.6% of the respondents with
common wrong executive knowledge so they believe in arrangeing gathering labourers in one row take all boll, using fertilizer sacks mod of blastic in gathering process, late gathering up to 60% opening boll respectively.
• Pesticides, fertilizers, and seeds are enough present
for 90% , 88.7% and 82% of the respondents, but the prices of pesticides and pertilizers are high.
• Garnering process is expensive and its labourares
were not enough according to opinion of 93.3% and 74% of the respondents respectively.
• 88.7% of the respondents sold quantity of their
cotton crop to merchants and 98% of them sold quantity to Agricultural Cooperation. Marketing service facilities available to respondents were very limited.
• All the respondents sold their crops without
determining its order, the prices of die first
gathering equal to the second, it changed from day
to another not from farmer to another, so there is
no incentive to raise the order of the crop.
Publication year 2007
Pages 117-129
Availability location Agricultural Extension and Rural Development Research Institutes library
Availability number
Organization Name
City Alexandria
serial title Alexandria Science Exchange Journal
Author(s) from ARC
Agris Categories Extension
AGROVOC
TERMS		 Cotton. Marketing techniques.
Publication Type Journal
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