Farmers benefit from the activities of international organizations to Diffusion agricultural innovations at Sohag Governorate

Document Type : Research and Review Papers

Authors

1 Agricultural social sciences Department Faculty of Agriculture Sohag University Sohag 82524 Egyp

2 Agricultural Economics and social sciences Department Faculty of Agriculture South Valley University Qena Egypt

3 Agricultural social sciences Department Faculty of Agriculture Sohag University Sohag 82524 Egypt

Abstract

This research mainly aimed to study Farmers benefit from the 
activities of international organizations to Diffusion agricultural 
innovations in Sohag Governorate, by achieving sub-objectives: 
determining the degree to which respondents benefit from the 
extension activities of international organizations, and to study the 
correlational relationships between the degree of respondents’ 
overall benefit and the independent variables. "This research was 
conducted on a random sample of beneficiaries from the United 
Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), numbering 
361 respondents. Data was collected during the month of October 
2022 using a questionnaire form, and the data was analyzed using 
frequencies, percentages, weighted average, and rank correlation 
coefficient." Kendall,” and among the most important results 
reached: that more than half of the farmers surveyed (56.5%) had a 
moderate degree of overall benefit, while the degree of benefit of 
nearly a third of the respondents (31.6%) was low, while The degree 
of benefit of 11.9% of them was high, and it became clear that there 
was a significant Expulsion correlation at the probability level of 
0.01 between the total degree of the respondents’ benefit from 
extension activities carried out by international organizations and the 
following independent variables: area of agricultural land, level of 
ambition, exposure to agricultural information sources, At a 
probability level of 0.05 with the variable type of agricultural land 
tenure; While a significant correlation was not proven between the 
overall degree of respondents’ benefit from extension activities and 
the following independent variables: age, level of education, and size 
of farm animal ownership. 

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