The Role of Women Farmers Breadwinners in Managing the Coronavirus (Covid-19) Pandemic Crisis in One of Wadi Al-Saaida's Villages in Edfu Center, Aswan Governorate

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Department of Agricultural Economics - Faculty of Agriculture - Beni Suef University

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This research aims to indentity the role of women farmers breadwinners in managing The Covid-19 pandemic crisis in one of Wadi Al-Saaida's villages in Edfu center in Aswan, and the research data had been collected using in-depth interviews with 30 women farmers who were selected from the total number of winners women in the village of Samaha in Wadi Al-Sa'ida during October and November 2020. The non-quantitative approach was used to analyze the research data, and the most important results of the research were summarized in:
Television is the most important source of hearing and information for the majority of researchers. The most extensive information they have known is how to protect themselves from covid-19 and treatment methods. The majority of women researched had faced economic, social, health, psychological, educational and bad public services due to covid-19 pandemic.The most damaged periods during which the researchers are affected are the periods of worsening the crisis and the decline of the crisis. The majority of the researchers have faced and managed covid-19 pandemic to avoid the crisis and mitigate its effects through a set of practices which they implement them, are: prepare for prevention and face covid-19 by collecting information and identify its damage . and the necessary logistics of purchasing and storing medical supplies and masks, Detergents and disinfectants. The majority of the researchers carry out some daily practices and procedures to contain and reduce the damage of Coved-19 pandemic, and its economic damage by saving expenses, relying on their stocks of goods and money, and marketing goods and products from their homes, They reduce social damage by replacing direct communication and visiting parents and neighbors with phone calls.They Reduce the health damage by implementing the precautionary measures taken by the state for her and her family members from complying with hours of curfew, not going to the village markets, avoid gatherings, not attending events and celebrations, and providing meals and healthy foods which  resist covid-19 and strengthening immunity.They have daily practices to return to their daily activities, contain the effects of covid-19, and handling what was lost in the curfew, with their application of the same procedures and practice in the stage of containing and reducing the damage, and the majority of the researchers confirmed that there is no significant role for the agricultural extension agency and development organizations in their village during the crisis cycle and management.
 

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