Students Opinions of the Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University Related to Automation of Agriculture

Emam, Dina H.; Ibrahim, Reda Hosny

doi:10.21608/asejaiqjsae.2024.366356

Students Opinions of the Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University Related to Automation of Agriculture

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Dina H. Emam ¹
Reda Hosny Ibrahim ²

¹ Department of Rural Sociology & Agricultural Extension,Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt,

² Department of Rural Sociology and Agricultural Extension,, Faculty of , agriculture Cairo University

10.21608/asejaiqjsae.2024.366356

Abstract

Automation is the replacement of physical activities and human decision making with machines and equipment in performing agricultural operations, which reduces or eliminates direct human intervention and improves accuracy in agricultural production systems. Using Automation in agriculture increases agricultural production achieving food security and sustainable development. So, the research aimed mainly at exploring the respondent’s opinions concerning automation of agriculture and identifying their relationships with the independent studied variables, determining the most important problems facing automation of agriculture and their proposals to overcome these problems. The research was conducted on a purposive sample of 150 students with percentage (38.4%) from a total population of 391 students from agricultural extension 411 ASE course. Data was collected through a questionnaire designed and pretested for achieving the research objectives. Frequencies, percentages, Pearson correlation coefficient and Chi square were used for analyzing data through spss statistical package. The research findings were as follows:
1- About half of respondents (47.3%) had high degree of opinion and about third of them (32%) had medium degree of opinion concerning using Automation in agriculture.
2- There is no relationship between the respondent’s opinions and any of the independent studied variables.
3- The most important obstacle facing automation of agriculture were difficulty of using technology for farmers with the percentage of (89.3%).
4- The most important proposal to overcome the obstacles facing automation of agriculture were training farmers on using Automation in agriculture with the percentage of (82.7%).

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