A Study of Farmer’s Attitudes towards the Contract Faming In El-Bostan Area, -Al-Noubaria Region

The contract farming is one of the productive models that aiming to overcome the problems of traditional agriculture, specifically; the financial needs, the lack of technical experience, the availability of agricultural inputs and marketing risks  throughout the insurance programs, long term marketing agreements, internal and external marketing opportunities and systems of risk management. Accordingly: the main objective of this study is to studythe farmer’s attitudes towards the contract faming at El-Bostan villages.
The study was executed in the El-Bostan area; El-Noubaria region, at Abass El- Akkad, Tawfik El-Hakim and Metwally El-Sharawy villages and the data were collected by personal interviews employing a designed questionnaire from 124 respondents randomly selected. To study the farmer’s attitudes towards the traditional agriculture, farmer’s attitudes towards the contract faming farmer’s attitudes towards the procedures of contract faming. The data were statistically analyzed applying the descriptive percentage, frequencies,mean and Friedman test
The main findings of this study were:
1-    Concerning the traditional agriculture, the majority of farmers have negative to neutral attitudes towards both the agricultural marketing problems (91%  from the studied farmers ), problems of traditional agriculture (90%) and the problems of pre farming of  traditional agriculture (82% )
2-    Regarding the contract farming, the majority of farmers have positive to neutral attitudes towards both the applying and ensuring the contracting procedures between farmer and the marketer (96% of the farmers), the procedures of the farmer rights (89%), and each of providing the technical experience and  reducing the risks marketing (87% ).
3-    In light of the studied results an applied framework was formulated including four dimensions as follows: securing the parties interests of contract farming, the services of technical and technological support, the improvement of agricultural marketing systems, internally and externally, and the accreditation standards of the agricultural production.