Knowledge and Practices of Rain Wheat Farming Related to Management of using Underground Water and Rainwater Irrigation in Agriculture in Some Matrouh Governorate Districts

A. Houssein, Ahmed

doi:10.21608/asejaiqjsae.2017.127359

Knowledge and Practices of Rain Wheat Farming Related to Management of using Underground Water and Rainwater Irrigation in Agriculture in Some Matrouh Governorate Districts

Document Type : Original Article

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Ahmed A. Houssein

10.21608/asejaiqjsae.2017.127359

Abstract

The objective of the present research was to identify farmers knowledge level which concerned the rationalization of using underground water and rainwater irrigation in cultivation of rain wheat, As well as to identify practices level of the farmers concerned with management of underground water and rainwater irrigation in the cultivation of rain wheat and finally to identify the most important obstacles and problems of wheat rain production through the opinions of farmers.
The research was conducted in the largest village of the six rain wheat villages from Dabaa area (Zawiyat al-Awamah and Al-Dabaa villages) From Al-Hamam area (Al-Ameed and Al Salam villages) From Barani (Al-Dhafer and Barani villages) in the coastal area of Matrouh governorate. Random samples of 300 farmers were selected from 751 population farmers 50 farmers per village from the inventory lists found in the agricultural associations at 2015-2016 season and Matrouh website. data was collected using interviewing questionnaire. The data was analyzed through mean, median the arithmetic average range.
The obtained search results can be arranged as follow:
1. The percentage of farmers with the respondents' knowledge of medium and low towards the rationalization using underground water for irrigation and rain wheat in the cultivation found to be 85%.
2. The percentage of farmers' respondents with the level of low and medium practices towards management of the used underground water for irrigation and rain wheat in the cultivation found to be 93%.
3- The most important problems and obstacles facing the production of rain wheat from the perspective of farmers interviewed were the absence of rain wheat special seeds with rate of repetition 95% and the knowledge of timing of rainfall is 88% exactly unknown and, the cost of service of the land extremely high by 60%.

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