Knowledge of the Interviewed Honey Bee Breeders of The Technical Recommendations for Controlling Honey Bee Diseases in Qalyubia Governorate.

This research mainly aimed at identifying the level of knowledge of the Honey Bee Breeders surveyed with the Technical Recommendations for honeybee disease resistance in Qalyubia governorate, by identifying the  knowledge gap related to technical recommendations for disease control at honey bee breeders, and identifying the correlation between the knowledge of the Honey Bee Breeders surveyed with the Technical Recommendations for disease resistance and the studied independent variables, and determining the percentages of the contribution of the independent variables with a significant correlation with the level of knowledge of honey bee keepers in explaining the total variance, and to achieve these goals, a questionnaire was designed and its data were collected in a personal interview with a sample of 170 respondents from honey bee breeders In Qalyubia Governorate, data were collected during the last quarter of 2022, and frequencies, percentages, and averages were used to present the results, and the simple correlation coefficient (Pearson) and the upward gradual regression analysis coefficient were used to test the validity of the statistical hypotheses.
The most important results were as follows:1- The degrees of knowledge of the respondents for all the items of the studied recommendations were low, and the general average of the degrees of knowledge of honey beekeepers about the items of recommendations related to disease control was 3.33 degrees, representing, 83.21%. 2- 23.5% of the respondents fall into the category of those with low knowledge of technical recommendations for disease control, 41.8% of them fall into the category of those with medium knowledge. 3- The degree of knowledge of the honey beekeepers of the respondents had a significant relationship at the probability level 0.01 with each of the age, education, experience in honey bee production, average hive production of honey per year, the degree of trend towards innovations in the production of bee honey, the degree of motivation for achievement. 4- The percentage of the contribution of the independent variables combined together in explaining the total variance in the degree of knowledge of the honey bee breeders of the respondents is 31%.