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Knowledge of water users associations members-local leaders about the associations goals and tasks
in Sedi salem and El-Riyad districts,
Kafr el-sheikh governorate
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Abstract: This study aimed mainly to identify knowledge of water user association members concerning association objectives and missions. Data were collected by using personal interview questionnaire from a sample of 234 member respondents were selected among local leader-members in administrative board of water user association based on each self estimation of opinion leadership, agricultural extension agent, and water orientation engineer, which was distributed as 112 respondents in Elriyad and 122 respondents in Sedi Salem districts at Kafr Elsheikh governorate.
The main results of this study were that the knowledge levels of 29.1% and 37.4% of total respondents concerning association objectives and missions were low respectively 52.6% and 50% of them their knowledge levels were moderate and only 18.3% and 12.6% of them their knowledge were high concerning association objectives and missions respectively. A significant and positive correlation relationship were found between respondents knowledge concerning association objectives and missions and each of respondents education degree, farm-land holding size, farm animal holding size, degree of membership in water user association on meska, degree of aspiration, farm land holding size located on meska, degree of exposure to training and benefit from it, degree of informal social participation, degree of formal social participation, degree of exposure to extension methods in field of rationalizing irrigation water, self estimation of opinion leadership in field of rationalizing irrigation water, degree of innovativeness, change readiness in field of rationalizing irrigation water, degree of cosmopolitiness on the other associations. Attitude towards rationalizing on the other associations, attitude towards rationalizing techniques of irrigation water, degree of extension communication, number of information sources related irrigation, and attitude towards agricultural extension and water orientation, while this relationship were significant and negative between the two studded dependent variables and each of meska priority for getting water from the sub canal and degree of drainage efficiency of land holding on meska at the some level of significance (0.01).
These independent variables combined correlated with respondents knowledge concerning association objectives and missions by multiple correlation coefficients amounted 0.777 and 0.773 respectively and also combined explained 60.3% and 59.7% from its variance gradually. Seven independent variables 0.e. formal social participation, attitude towards agricultural extension and water orientation, degree of membership in water user association on meska, degree of extension communication, informal social participation, farm land holding size and number of information sources related irrigation were the most independent variables affecting dependent variables and explaining its, variance.
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| Publication year |
2007
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| Pages |
1-241
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| Availability location |
Agricultural Extension and Rural Development Research Institutes library, معهد بحوث الارشاد الزراعى والتنمية الريفية-مركز البحوث الزراعية -جيزة
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| Availability number |
695
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Egypt
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Name:
Faculty of Agriculture, Kafr El-Sheikh, Tanta University, Egypt.
Place:
Kafr El-Sheikh
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| Agris Categories |
Development economics and policiesExtension
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AGROVOC
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Egypt.
Knowledge management.
Leadership.
Water.
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| Publication Type |
PhD Thesis
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