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Farmers' behavior towards adapting to the impact of climate changes of tomato crop in some villages at Damietta Governorate
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Farmers' behavior towards adapting to the impact of climate changes of tomato crop in some villages at Damietta Governorate
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Abstract: This study aimed mainly to identify the farmers' behavior to adapt for the effect of climate changes of tomato crop in some villages in Damietta governorate by determining the level of farmers' knowledge about the effect of climate changes of tomato crop. Also, to identify the farmers attitude towards reduce the negative effects of climate changes of crop tomatoes, and determine the level of implementation of tomato plant recommendations to adapt the climate changes of this record. As well as, to determine the degree of exposure and utilization of tomato farmers to the sources of information in this regard.
This study was conducted at Kafr El-Batikh district, Damietta Governorate. Three of the biggest villages have been chosen at Kafr El Batikh. This villages were Al-Hawashim, Al-Awamar and Umm Al-Reda. The total number of tomato growers in the three villages were 703 farmers. Arandom regular sample was selected (20% of the total tomato growers in the selected villages). The sample size was 140 respondents, distributed as follows: 70 respondents in Hawashim village, 40 respondents from Al Awamer village and 30 respondents from Umm al-Reda village
. The questionnaire, which was previously selected initially to collect personal data through interviews which conform to its terms and to achieve research objectives during July month, 2018. The data processing was quantified. Tabular presentation loops and percentages, and the arithmetic average as tools of statistical analysis and draw conclusions have been used. The research achieved the most important results of which are:
1. Approximately half of the surveyed farmers (48.6%) reported their total knowledge of the climate changes impact of tomato yield, both high and medium.
2. The majority of the surveyed farmers (80.7%) are neutral with the negative effects of climate changes of tomato yield.
3. The majority of tomato farmers surveyed (86.4%), are the overall level of implementation of the recommendations to adapt the impact of climate changes studied is medium.
4. More than half of the respondents (55%) who exposed to the resources of the studied information are medium, and 45% of them who are exposed to a low level of exposure of the information resources studied are weak.
5. And 59.3% of the tomato growers surveyed had an average level of access to the information resources studied, 40.7% of whom had a low level of access to these resources.
6. Cheating agricultural pesticides, high prices of agricultural production inputs (seeds, fertilizers, and pesticides), lack of good seed varieties and resistance to climate changes, traders controlling the prices of agricultural production inputs, and lack of training cadres of growing tomatoes in agricultural departments are the most important problems facing tomatoes farmers in researched area
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2018
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68-99
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الجيزه
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1110-7870
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Journal
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