Rice Farmers Exposure to The Rice Expert System and Its Impact on Them in Some Village of El-Behera Governorate

This research amid mainly to identify the respondents' exposure level to the rice expert system, and its impact on them. The study was carried out for achieving the following: 1-To identify objectives some characteristics of the respondents. 2-To determine the degree of respondents' exposure to rice expert system.3-To identify the impact of exposure to the rice expert system .4-Study the statistical relationship between some studied independent variables and the depended variables.
Data were collected by using questionnaire through personal interviews with a 148 rice farmers. Data were analyzed statistically by using Percentages, frequencies, arithmetic means, standard deviation, simple correlation coefficient, and multiple correlation and regression analysis (step-wise). The main findings were as follows:

30.4% from the respondents have a low exposure level, while 57.4%, and 12.2% from them their exposure level were medium and high respectively.
The exposure impact to the rice expert system was a high on 41.2% of respondents.
The study showed that there are many obstacles facing the respondents concerning their exposure to this expert system.
The study showed that there are four independent variables: respondent's education level, respondent's aspiration level, respondent's opinion about the rice expert system and their opinion about the extension explained about 43.8% in their variance of exposure degree as a dependent variable.
The study showed that there are three independent variables: information sources, confidential of respondents on system and the respondent's opinion in the variance of the impact of exposure as a dependent variable about the information of rice expert system explained about 39.6% in respondent's exposure degree of impact them.