FARMERS' KNOWLEDGE AND IMPLEMENTATION REGARDING PRACTICES OF DATE PALMS WEEVIL CONTROL AT EL- BROLLOUS DISTRICT IN KAFR EL-SHEIKH GOVERNORATE

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Agriculture Extension &Rural Development Research institute, Agricultural Research Center, Dokki, Giza, Egypt

Abstract

This research aimed at identifying data palm farmers knowledge and implementing levels with practices of date-palms weevil control, determining the correlation relationship between each of the dependent variables and the other independent variables as well as determining the contribution of independent variables in explaining total variance of each depended variables, and to identify the constraints facing respondents in this field and their suggestions to overcome them point of view from their. Study data were collected from systematic random sample amounting 186 respondents were selected among date-palm farmers in El-Brollous district by using personal interview questionnaire during April 2007 frequencies, percentages simple correlation coefficient, and multiple correlation and regression analysis (step-wise) were used for analyzing data statistically.