Abstract
The research aimed mainly at identifying the degree of farmers' knowledge of the items of special recommendations for managing agricultural crises in the reclaimed areas, and identifying the sources of knowledge of farmers for managing agricultural crises, and determining the relationship between the degree of knowledge of farmers and some of the independent variables studied.
This research was conducted in the Al-Tineh Plain area of the Sinai Peninsula, as one of the reclaimed areas, with three villages (Village 3, Village 4, and Village 7) randomly selected from the largest villages that were reclaimed in the region. Data was collected during the period from the beginning of May until mid-June 2023, from during a personal interview questionnaire on a random sample of 322 respondents in the Al-Tineh Plain area of the Sinai Peninsula.
The data were presented and analyzed: tabular presentation with frequencies and percentages, arithmetic averages, standard deviation, Pearson's simple correlation coefficient, correlational and multiple regression models, and the data was analyzed using the statistical analysis program (spss).
The most important results showed:
More than three-quarters of the respondents, amounting to 81.7%, had a low to medium degree of knowledge of the technical recommendations for managing agricultural crises.
As for the sources of knowledge, the results showed that 19.9% of the respondents fall into the category of those with low sources of knowledge, and that 64.9% of the respondents fall into the category of those with medium sources of knowledge, and that 15.2% of the respondents fall into the category of those with sources of knowledge. Elevated knowledge.
It was found from the results that there is a significant correlation between the total degree of knowledge of farmers to manage agricultural crises to implement the items of special recommendations for managing agricultural crises and the following independent variables studied: the degree of education of the respondent, the degree of frequency on service centers, the degree of exposure to information sources, the degree of exposure to extension means of communication , and sources of knowledge, while the rest of the relationships between the rest of the independent variables studied did not prove significant.