Some factors affecting the attitudes of female agriculturalists towards working in the field of agricultural extension
Abstract: Attitudes are considered one of the main limiting factors in human behavior. Therefore this study was conducted to determine some of the personal and social characteristics and traits for female agriculturalists which affect their attit¬udes towards working in the field of agricultural extension in order to be able to predict their behavior and participation in rural development activities. For realizing this Objective a questionnaire was designed and filled through personal interviews of 281 female agriculturalists representing all the female agriculturalists who attended the 10 training courses held in Fayoum, Giza, Qualubia, Gharbia and Beahira governorates; with an average of two training courses in each governorate and 28 female agriculturalists in each Training course. These courses were organized for the project of "Raising efficiency of rural women in the field of food production" which was implemented jointly by the M.O.A. of Egypt and F.A.O. with the objective of preparing such female agriculturalists to work as female extension agents. Statistical tools such as, frequencies, percentages, "Z" teat, Pearson's coefficient of correlation, and multiple correlation and regression (Step-wise) were used in presenting and analyzing of collected data and concluding res¬earch results
The study revealed that there were significant differences between attitudes of those female agriculturalists who desire and who don't desire to work in agriculture extension.
The major reasons given by the group of female agriculturalists who desired to work in agricultural extension were; their desire for advising rural women in areas of food and health, improving rural women performance of home and field processes, helping in increasing incomes of rural families and trying to solve problems of rural women . on the other hand, the major reasons of the group of female agriculturalists who expressed their undesire in working in agricultural extension ware : unsuitability of their family situation to the performance of agricultural extension work, difficulties in dealing with and convincing rural female farmers, not having the characteristics and qualifications of successful female extension agents and the relatively long distances between village and their living places . The study revealed that there was significant difference at the .01 level between female agriculturalists attitudes towards working in extension as a dependent variable and the variable of desire to work as a female extension agent . Also there were significant differences at the .05 level between the dependent variable and the two following variables: qualification of the respon¬dent, and association of the husband's job with the respondent work. These above 3 independent variables explained together about 16 percent of the variance in the dependent variable; i.e. their attitudes towards working in agricultural extension. The variable of the desire to work in extension was the most important independent variable as it participated in explaining about 13 percent of the variance. The importance of this study is due to the fact that it identifies those factors affecting female agriculturalists' attitudes towards work in agricultural extension field and the reasons of their desire or undesire to work as female extension agents. These findings are useful to help responsible official lead¬ers of extension service when they choose female agriculturalists to work as extension agents.
Publication year 1987
Pages 20
Availability location Agricultural Extension And Rural Development Research Institute Library – agricultural Research Center – 8, Cairo University St., - Egypt
Availability number 132
Organization Name
Country Egypt
City Giaz
Publisher Name: Agricultural Research Centre – Egypt
serial title Bulletin of Agricultural research and Rural development research institute
Department Rural Sociology Research Department
Author(s) from ARC
Agris Categories Extension
AGROVOC
TERMS		 Human behaviour.
Publication Type Journal
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