Farmers' Attitude toward the Expansion of Growing Prickly Pears in El Nubaria Area

Document Type : Original Article

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Desert Research Center

Abstract

 The research was done to identify the degree of respondents' attitude toward the expansion of growing Prickly Pears at the study area, to determine the relationship between that degree and their studied independent variables, to define the degree of contribution of each of the independent variables of insignificant correlation in total variation for the change of such attitude degree. The research was carried out in El Nubaria area that characterized with a relative advantage in producing some fruit corps in general and prickly pears in particular due to the availability of the favorable environmental conditions. A systematic, randomized sample of 264 farmers of the total research group frame. Data were colleted during January and February, 2019 via personal interviews for the selected respondents using questionnaire forms including 21 items to parameter respondents' attitude toward expanding the growing of Prickly Pears after making certain that such items are being viable, stable, and constant, to present and analyze the date, Replicates, Percentage, Arithmetic Mean ,Standard Deviation, Simple Correlation Coefficient, Stepwise Digression analysis and testing the Hypotheses were used.

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