Farmers' Wives Performance of Their Roles That Are Related to the Agricultural, Economic, Social and Environmental Aspects at El Kharga Center- New Valley Governorate

The research aims to identify the level of the farmers' wives performance of their roles that are related to the agricultural, economic, social and environmental aspects at El Kharga center - New Valley Governorate through achieving the following sub-goals: 1- To identify the level of farmers’ wives performance of the rural productive practices at the New Valley in the fields of agro-economic, social and environmental activities in the research area. 2- To study the correlation between the degree of farmers' wives performance of the productive practices in the field of agricultural activities in the research area and the independent variables. 3- To determine the ratios of the contribution of independent, relational variables in the interpretation of the overall variation in the degree of the wives’ performance of the productive practices in the field of agricultural activities in the research area. The research has been conducted on the four largest villages: El Monira, Boulak, El Sherka, Nasser Al-Thawra and Sana'a. A simple random sample of 140 respondents from the farmers’ wives (5%) was selected and chosen from the five selected villages they were 38, 33, 32, 26 and 11 respectively. The final data for this research were collected through the personal interview with the respondents through a questionnaire form during July and August 2017. Pearson coefficient, the relational analysis model, and the progressive step-wise were used in analyzing the data. Numerical count, percentages, mean, and standard deviation were used to display some of the results. The research results showed that: 1- 24.3% of the respondents have low performance of agricultural, economic, social and environmental activities, while the percentage of women with medium performance level was 48.6%, and 27.1% of the respondents have high level. 2- The results showed a positive correlation at the level (0.01) between the degree of performance related to the agricultural aspects as a dependent variable and each of the following independent variables: The husband's area of possession, the number of farm animals, the number of poultry raised by the respondent, and the agricultural extension information sources. A negative correlation was found at the level (0.05) between the degree of performance of their roles related as a dependent variable and the independent variable: the number of family members.
The results also indicated a negative correlation at the degree (0.01) between the performance of their roles related to the agricultural aspects as a dependent variable and the following independent variables: the educational level and the origin.
The results showed that there was no moral correlation between the degree of performance of their roles as a dependent variable and each of the following independent variables: age, employment, community participation and extension training. 3- The results showed that the contribution ratios of all the combined independent variables were moral at the level 0.01. At the third step, the morale reached 53.6% of the total variation in the dependent variable. 37.9% of these are attributed to the agricultural information resource variable, 15.1% is due to the variation of domestic poultry raised by the