The Differences among the Opinions of the Extension Workers and Farmers about Their Evaluations to the Degree of Providing Guidance Service in Qalyubia Governorate

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The main purpose of the research was to determine the degree of provision of extension services in the extension centers from the point of view of extension workers and farmers in Qalyubia governorate, by achieving the following sub-objectives: Identifying the degree of extension service, in the areas of plant production, horticultural production, livestock production, and rural development, identifying the differences among the opinions of both agricultural extension workers and farmers for some of the communication and extension variables that help provide extension service from their point of view, and to identify the differences among the estimates of each agricultural extension workers and farmers to the degree of extension service in these four areas, and to achieve these objectives, two questionnaires were designed and their data were collected in person with two samples of respondents with a sample of 216 respondents, while the sample of the farmers was 364, and the repetitions, percentages, and averages were used to display the data and the (T) test was used to test the validity of statistical assumptions related to the differences among the researchers.

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