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المستخلص
THE ROLE OF AGRICULTURE
EXTENION IN IMPROVING POULTRY
PRODUCTION IN KALUBIA
GOVERNORATE
SUMMARY
Food security is one of the main goals of Agricultural
development as it is important problem encountering the world
in general and developing countries in specific including Egypt.
The problem arose as a sequence of pressing increase of
population accompanied by the raising consumption awareness ,
which led to higher demand for food causing a food gap.
Scientists had pointed that filling this gap in Egypt should follow
both vertical and horizontal expansion in agriculture. Of the
main sources of protin that can be used to fill this gap is poultry .
Agricultural Extension, aiming to increase agricultural
production in the context of Rural Development is concerned
with disseminating such ideas and recommendations among its
audience to convince he them to apply it in their farms.
In spite of the strong concern about poultry production as
a source of white meet having high nutration value, and also the
increasing number of breeding battaries all over the country and
Qualubia Governorate specifically, it was noticed that meny
projects were eucumbered during the lost few years. This might
due to breeders, incuffecient knowledge and skills, and
unfavorable attitudes as well as the unclear role of exteusion in
role of extension seruice in raising poultry production in
Qualnbia Governorate through identifying breeders, knowledge
and practices regarding poultry production, define their
information sources of these recommendations, determine the
variables that affect their knowledge and practices and the rate of
its contribution in explaining the varience in production capacity,
identify the problems hindering the prod the production and the
main extension services breeders get in this regards.
The study aimed to :
I- Identify breeders’ knowledge regarding Poultry Production
Recommendations (PPR) .
2- Identify breeders’ practices regarding PPR .
3- Determine the relationship between the breeders’ knowledge
degree regarding PPR and some personal, social, economic
and communicationvariables .
4- Define the contribution ratio of the personal, social,
economic and communical variables correlated significantly
with respondent’s knowledge degree regarding PPR in
explaining the total varieuce of this knowledge.
5- Determine the relationship between the breeders’ practice
degree regarding PPR and some personal, social, economic
and communicationalvariables.
6- Define the contribution ratio of the personal, social,
economic and communicational variables correlated
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significantly with respondent’s practice degree regarding
PPR in explaining the total vavieuce of this practices.
7- Identify the problems facing poultry breeders, their
suggestions to solve: r and the main seruices delivered by
extension to improve poultry production.
The study took place in Banha and Toukh districts of
Qualubia governorate, where four villages were selected from
each district. A random sample of 150 breeder was selected
representing 25% of total breeders in the selected villages (77
and 73 from Banha and Toukh districts respectively) . Data were
collected by personally interviewing respondents using a pretested
questionnaire which composed of two parts for measuring
independent variables. Pearson’s product moment, step wise,
percentages and means were used to analyze data statistically .
The main results of the study revealed that:
l-Breeders’ knowledge degrees regarding most PPRs were
relativily high.
2-Breeders’ practice degrees regarding most PPRs were
relativily high.
3-Soures of breeders information about PPR were:
4--Extension organizations sources related to the Ministary of
Agriculture and land Reclamition (MALR) where
breeders got 32.9 % ofPPR .
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-Extension organizations sources related to the Ministaries other
than MALR where breeders got 12.9% ofPPR.
-Non-governmental sources where breeders got 5.7 % ofPPR .
This situation indicates that the role of extension seruice is not
usffecienlly fulfilled.
5-Breeders’ knowledge degree at 0.01 level with each of: the
degree of breeders’ attitude towards change, the degree of
breeders attitude towards extension, the degree of contacting
change agent and the degree of cosmoplilanness . All these
uariables contributed by 28.30% in explaining the total
uavience in breeders’ knowledge. The rate of these variables
contribution were 20.97%, 5.96%, 0.95 and 0.042%
sequenially .
6-Breeders practice degree regarding PPR was significantly and
positivily correlated at 0.01 level with each of: period of
experience in breeding poultry, the degree of attitude toward
extension and the degree of attitude towards change. The
three variables contributed by 15.37 % in explaining the total
variance in respondents degree of practice, as they contributed
by 13.54% , 1.2% and 0.63 respectively.
7-Eleven problems facing breeders were mentioned rating
between 98.7% regarding chicks high prices and 53.3%
concerning spreading of bad varieties .
8-Twelve suggestions were proposed by respondents to improve
poultry production ranged between 96.7% concerning
working to improve market prices, and 54% for providing
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breeders with extension bulletins and magazines of poultry
production.
Some applicable results can be drawn from the study as
follows:
I-Extension program planners and executives in the Central
Administration of Agricultural Extension and the Animal
Production sector of MALR would consider providing poultry
breeders by PPRs and practices that the study revealed that
they are still of in need of in the study area and the like
especially those measured under average .
2-Public extension should have a clear and effective role in
dissiminating PPRs.
3-Extension program planners and executive should consiser the
variables of: breeders’ attitude toward change, breeders’
attitude towards extension, the degree of contact with change
agent, cosmopotlanness degree and breeders experience
period in poultry breeding as these variables have high impact
on breeders’ kuowledge and practices regarding PPR.
4-Research studies in future would invistigate other personal
and situational variables that might contribute significantly
the variance in poultry breeders’ know ledge and practices in
the study area and the like .
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