'The level of farmers’ application of guidance recommendations to reduce the effects of climate change on the wheat crop in Sohag Governorate'

Document Type : Research and Review Papers

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1 Agricultural extension and rural sociology Department Faculty of Agriculture Sohag University Sohag Egypt

2 Agronomy Department Faculty of Agriculture Sohag University Sohag Egypt

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This research mainly aimed to identify the level of farmers’ application of the indicative recommendations to limit the effects of climate change on the wheat crop in Sohag Governorate, through the following sub-objectives: Identify the level of knowledge of the farmers in question regarding the indicative recommendations to reduce the effects of climate change on the wheat crop , And to identify the level of application of the researched farmers to the guidance recommendations to reduce the effects of climate change on the wheat crop, and to identify the problems that the researched farmers are exposed to in  order  to reduce the effects of climate change on the wheat crop. Data was collected through focus group discussions. Using an interview guide for 150 respondents who were wheat farmers, this sample was chosen intentionally, distributed into fifteen groups. Interviews were conducted and data were collected starting from the first day of August until the beginning of the first week of September 2024 AD in the following villages: Awlad village Ghareeb, the western village of Wanina, and the village of Mahamda.
 The most important results were:
1- The level of farmers’ knowledge of growing the recommended varieties of wheat is average (50%) of the farmers surveyed, while the percentage of farmers who cultivate the recommended varieties is (43%) of the farmers surveyed.
2- The level of knowledge of the farmers surveyed about the necessity of applying agricultural rotation to reduce the effects of climate change on the wheat crop is high (83%) of the farmers surveyed, while their level of application of this recommendation is low (45%) of the total respondents.
3- The most important problem that farmers face to reduce the effects of climate change on the wheat crop is the lack of good, trained extension personnel in the agricultural departments, at a rate of (87%) of the total farmers surveyed.respondents from rural families about the components of social security.

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