Determinants Of Developing The Extension And Production Role For The Agricultural Cooperative Association In Some Villages Of Mamora - Alexandria Governorate

This research aimed mainly at studying determinants of developing the extension and production role for the agricultural cooperative association in some villages in Alexandria governorate from Sub. Objectives following: (1) To knows some distinguished characteristics of investigated farmers. (2) To know the attitudes of respondents towards the recent role of the agricultural cooperative association. (3) To know the deficiencies of the recent role of the agricultural cooperative association. (4) To know the suggestions of the respondents to develop the extension and production role for the agricultural cooperative association.
A personal interview schedule was used for collecting data from random sample of 168 respondents, methods use in analyzing and presenting data were: percentages, range, arithmetic, mean, frequency tables and Peson’s simple correlation coefficient.
The main findings of this study were: (1)The degree of cultural openness of the respondents ranged between (6-18) degree, and high level 58.33, moderate level 34.52, low level 7.15.(2) Attitude of respondents towards the recent role of the agricultural cooperative association were: high level 13.69, moderate level 32.74, low level 53.57.(3) There was a positive significant relationship at 0.05% level between attitudes of respondents towards the recent of agricultural cooperative association and the following: respondents' education, periods of farm work, innovation, cultural openness, number of productive agricultural, the degree of trusting respondents towards the extension and production role of agricultural cooperative association.(4) The suggestions of respondents to develop the extension and production Role of agricultural cooperative association were: (1)To provide production requirements.(2) To provide trained agents. (3) Cooperation between agricultural cooperative association and agricultural credit bank. (4) Finding marketing channels. (5) To support the agricultural cooperative association financially.