Performance Level of Farm Animals’ Keepers of the Good Agricultural Practices in the Field of Dairy Production at Al Nubaria Area

The present study aimed to identifying the knowledge of farm animals’ keepers to the good agricultural practices in the field of dairy production at Al Nubaria Area, their level of implementing such practices and determining the most crucial obstacles that prevent farm animals’ keepers from implementing the good agricultural practices at the study area.
The study was conducted on a simple sample of 100 farm animals’ keepers in three villages in the sugar beet area.
The study results showed that farm animals’ keepers knowledge in terms of the good agricultural practices in the field of milk production were as follows:
1-    As for enhancing animals’ resistance to diseases variable, it was found that 60 % of respondents were of the low and average knowledge category, whereas 40 % were of the high knowledge category.
2-  As for animals’ care variable, it was indicated that 43
% of respondents came under the average knowledge category, whereas 37% came under the low knowledge and 20% came under the high knowledge category.
3-   As for environment variable, it was shown that 46% of respondents fell under the average knowledge category, whereas 44 % were of the high knowledge category and 12% were of the low knowledge category.
4-  As for nutrition and fodder variable, it was found that 53% of respondents fell under the average knowledge category, 30% fell under the high knowledge category, whereas 17% were of the low knowledge category.
5-    There was a relative reduction in the level of respondents’ implementing to the good agricultural practices in the field of dairy production, as for the boosting resistance to diseases variable, it was found that 65% of respondents were of the low and average implementing category.
 
6-   As for animals’ care variable, it was found that 46 % of respondents came under the low implementing category, as for environment variable, results showed that 40 % of respondents were of the high implementing category, and 39 % came under the average implementing category and 21 % were of the low implementing category. As for personal hygiene variable, it was found that 38 % of respondents fell under the average implementing category, 35 % fell under the high implementing category and 27 % came under the low implementing category.
As for nutrition and fodder variable, it was shown that 48 % of respondents came under the average implementing category, whereas 27 % came under the low implementing category.
7-    Results showed a significant relationship at (0.01) significance level between the variables: educational qualification, attitude toward modernizing of agricultural practices and the knowledge level of farm animals’ keepers in the field of milk production at the study area. there was also a significant relationship at 0.01 significance level between : educational qualification, animal holing and level of farm animals’ keepers level of implementation to the proper agricultural practices in the field on dairy at the study area.
8-    Respondents reported five (5) obstacles that keep farm animals” keepers from implementing the proper agricultural practices in the field of dairy production
i.e. the high price of fodders, the poor, in adequate extension services and information on keeping milk production animals, the insufficient finances for the keepers, difficulty of marketing due to lack of near markets near dairy marketing and the high fees for veterinarian vaccination.