DETERMINANTS OF FARMERS, ATTITUDES TOWARD FARM LAND CONSERVATION ANDIMPROVEMENT PRACTICES IN SOME VILLAGES IN BEHEIRA, GHARBIA, ANDKAFR EL-SHEIKH GOVERNORATES

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Agricultural Extension & Rural Development Research Institut – Department of Rural Sociology Research, Agricultural Research Center, Giza, Egypt.

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This research aimed at determining farmer ,s attitudes toward farm land maintenance and improvement practices , testing the differences in attitudes between villages to identify the relative importance of independent variables in explaining variance in the farmers attitudes and to identify suggestions of farmers that encourage them to improve and maintain farm land .To achieve the objectives of the research. Random sample of 300 farmers was selected from the three villages of Abo el- Mag, Behir, Mahalla El-Qasab, Kafr El-sheikh, and Moatamedia, Gharbia . Data were collected during the May, June 2012 by personal interviews. Means, F-test, Simple correlation and Multiple regression were used for data analysis.

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