Farmer's knowledge level of diseases affecting wheat crop

Document Type : Research and Review Papers

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Agricultural Extension Department Faculty of Agriculture Sohag University Sohag 82524 Egypt

Abstract

This research aimed mainly at determining the level of 
knowledge of farmers about the most important diseases that affect 
the wheat crop in Sohag Governorate. (SPSS) to analyze metadata 
and calculate the mean, standard deviation, percentages, simple and 
multiple correlation coefficient, and partial regression coefficient; 
The research reached the following most important results. 
1- About (75%) of the sample of farmers surveyed have high to 
medium knowledge of the most important agricultural 
recommendations to combat pests of the wheat crop, and more than 
half of the farmers their implementation of those recommendations 
is high. 
2-The results showed that there is a significant correlation between 
the knowledge level of the respondents and between (age, 
educational level, marital status, family size, basic occupation, land 
tenure, cultivated wheat area, exposure to mass communication, 
openness to the outside world, official social participation, and 
contact change agents). 
3-The study suggested setting up an indicative program to control 
some pests of the wheat crop in Sohag Governorate. 
Keywords: knowledge level - wheat crop - diseases affecting wheat 
crop

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