Agricultural Laborers Knowledge of Practices Leading to Endemic Diseases Spreading in Some Villages at Beheira Governorate

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This research aims to determine the monthly profitability of the pound invested in each production season of tomato in Egypt. Also to  estimate the area          This study aimed to determine the respondents Agricultural Laborers Knowledge to endemic diseases spreading through identification of their practices and their Knowledge level concerning that practices, determine the relationship between Knowledge level of that practices as a dependent variable and some studied characteristics of the respondents as independent variables, determine the effect of independent variables interpret the variation of the dependent variable and determine the differences between studded villages in respondents knowledge concerning endemic diseases spreading practices.
The study were conducted in sanhour Kofer                EL-Rahmania and Ebia EL-Hamraa at Damanhour,                EL-Mahmoudia and EL-Dalangat districts respectively EL-Beheira governorate, Random sample resonates 15% of the population was taken according to Krejcey and Morgan.
Data were collected using pretested Questionnaire during November and December 2011, mean, frequency, percentages, standard, deviation, simple correlation, stepwise regression and T test were used to analyze and present data.
Results were revealed that one fifth of respondent with high wrong practices, more than half with moderate wrong practices.
-   Respondents' degree concerning wrong practices causing endemic disease was high and moderate.
-   26.2% and 56.9% of the respondents their knowledge level concerning endemic diseases spreading was low and moderate respectively.
-   There are significant positive relationships at 0.01 between respondents learning degree, degree of mass communication, degree of extension communication, knowledge degree concerning some endemic diseases as independent variables and knowledge degree concerning endemic diseases spreading as dependent variable where r values are 0.266, 0.162, 0.188 and 0.405 respectively.
-     There are significant negative relationships at 0.01 between fatalism degree as independent variable and dependent variable where r value is -0.282.
-   Knowledge degree concerning endemic diseases and degree of fatalism interpret 17.8% of total variation of respondents' degree concerning practices causing endemic diseases.
-   There are significant a difference between the studied villages concerning respondents' knowledge practices causing endemic diseases was Ebia EL-Hamraa village is more than Sanhour and Kofer EL-Rahmania villages.         
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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