Application level of the agricultural cooperative societies to activities related to their role in extension work at Kafr El-Sheikh Governorate

Document Type : Original Article

Abstract

This research aimed to identify some of the characteristics of the respondents working in agricultural cooperative societies, to determine the degree of application of the respondents to activities related to the role of agricultural cooperative societies in extension work, to determine the number of times applied in the last season, and to identify the problems that impede the application of activities related to the role of agricultural cooperative societies at extension work.
This research was conducted in Kafr El-Sheikh Governorate, which includes 59 agricultural cooperative societies in the agricultural reclamation sector. This research data analyzing by: frequencies, percentage, mean, standard deviation, and weighted average. The data was analyzed by computer using the statistical program package in the social sciences version 16 (SPSS) Statistical Program of Social Sciences.
The most important results of the search were:
- It was found that 3.1% of the respondents came in the category of low application degree of activities related to the role of agricultural cooperatives in extension work, while 79.4% of them came in the medium application category, while 17.5% of them came in the category of high application of activities related to the role of agricultural cooperative societies in extension work.
- It was found that 47.4% of the respondents came in the few category because of the problems that impede the implementation of activities related to the role of agricultural cooperative societies in extension work, while 48.8% of them came in the medium category, while only 3.8% of them came in the large category Because of the problems impeding the application of activities related to the role of agricultural cooperative societies in extension work.
- It was found that 69.4% of the respondents came in the lowest category in terms of the degree of the impact of problems hindering the implementation of activities related to the role of agricultural cooperative societies in extension work, while 28.1% of them came in the intermediate category, while 2.5% of them came in The high category in terms of the degree of the impact of problems impeding the application of activities related to the role of agricultural cooperative societies in extension work.
- It became clear that the most important proposals of the respondents to overcome the problems of implementing activities related to the role of agricultural cooperative societies in the extension work in: Conducting training courses for workers in agricultural societies, which was mentioned by 88.7%, providing fertilizers, mentioned by 81.25%, and providing agricultural loans to farmers, mentioned by 78%. 12%, then adherence to the agricultural cycle, he mentioned it by 75%, followed by regular extension seminars, mentioned by 65.60%

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