Agricultural Extension Policy Suggestion for Decreasing the Loss of Tomato Production in Some Villages in the Abis Extent Region, Alexandria Governorate

This research aimed  to determine the factors that affect on the response of tomato's farmers to the agricultural extension recommendations,  that will decrease the loss of tomato, and through determining  these factors can be suggestion Extension policy to achieve this purpose. This research was conducted in some villages of  Abis Extent region, Alexandria governorate. Correlation matrix and multiple regression method through the double logarithmic function were used for data analysis.
The main results of this study revealed that:
-   The percentage of  respondents  who know the technical recommendations on decreasing the loss of tomato crop was  77%,  while the respondents who implement it accounted for 70 %.
-   A shortage of 10% in the level of age, at the same time rosining 10% for each  of educational level and general literacy, it would decrease the loss of tomato crop by 8.87% due to improved knowledge level of the respondents in  the technical recommendations associated with decreasing the loss of tomato crop.
-   A shortage of 10% in the level of life, and at the same time make a raise of 10% of the level of each of the trend towards agricultural innovations and size acquisition of agricultural land,  it would reduce the value of the loss of tomato crop by 3.81%  due to improved operational level of the respondents in the technical recommendations on reducing wastage of the tomato crop.
 
-   A shortage of 10% in the level of age, at the same time raising 10% for each of the attitude towards agricultural innovations and farm size, it would decrease the loss tomato crop by 3.81% due to improved operational level of the respondents in the technical recommendations associated with decreasing the loss of tomato crop.
-   The study revealed that is some important problems that faced the respondents when carrying out some technical recommendations associated with decreasing the loss of tomato crop, they are follows  :high costs associated with packing and wages of workers (54.5%) non-sorting and grading of fruits,  the lack of marketing outlets, diffusion  of some mis-conceptions in marketing such as fruits straw coverage,and  frequent trading fruits in combined operations and marketing(17.9%).
-   The respondents, suggestions  to overcome these problems are:  The Bank for Development and Agricultural Credit,  as well as agricultural cooperatives by providing funds and plastics packaging tomatoes by the terms of material accessible to farmers,  all concerned marketing tomatoes ranked fruits and cancel pricing consolidated it,  create marketing outlets for tomato, providing marketing information for the crop, and provision of machinery to harvest the crop,  where it was stated that the percentage ranged from 51.8% to 26.8%  of the respondents in descending order