Rural Women's Behavior towards Food Safety and Quality at Damanhour District, Beheira Governorate

Ghaly, Salwa; Mahmoud, Ali; Shahin, Olfat Shaban

doi:10.21608/asejaiqjsae.2022.268006

Rural Women's Behavior towards Food Safety and Quality at Damanhour District, Beheira Governorate

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ Agriculture extension Department, Damanhour university

² Agriculture extension Department, Damanhour University

³ Agricultural extension, Faculty of Agriculture, Damanhour university

10.21608/asejaiqjsae.2022.268006

Abstract

The research aimed to identify the behavior of rural women towards food safety and quality at Damanhour Distrct, the simple random sample amounted to 240 respondents, representing 5% of the total. The data were collected through a personal interview by questionnaire. The most important results were: 47.9% of the respondents have a low and medium total level of knowledge of food safety and quality, and 59.5% of them have a low and medium level of implementation of those practices, 52.1% have a negative and neutral attitude towards these practices, 68.3% believe that they have not been previously infected with Covid 19, and 49.2% have not taken the vaccine for Covid 19, the All agreed on the availability of the vaccine, 35% of the respondents have a low and medium level of knowledge of practices related to food safety and quality under Covid 19, and 50.8% have a low and medium level of implementation of those practices. Also, five independent variables together explain 65.4% of the total variance in the respondents’ knowledge of practices related to food safety and quality, four independent variables together explain about 62.3% of the total variance in the implementation of practices related to food safety and quality by the respondents. And seven independent variables together explain about 55.4% of the total variance in the attitudes of the rural women respondents towards food safety and quality.

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