THE RURAL WOMEN RESPONSE TO SCIENTIFIC RECOMMENDATIONS FOR VEGETABLES CULTIVATION INSIDE PLASTIC HOUSES IN THE PROVINCE OF AL-NAJAF AL-ASHRAF WITH RELATION TO SOME FACTORS | ||
| Thi-Qar University Journal for Agricultural Researches | ||
| Article 1, Volume 3, Issue 1, June 2014, Pages 301-323 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Ashowaq Abd Al-Razik Najy; Ansam Taleb Hissan | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The research aimed at knowing the response level of rural women to the scientific recommendations for the vegetable cultivation inside the plastic houses in AL-Najaf AL-Ashraf Province , and its relation with some factors through the diagnosis of economical and social properties of rural women according to the average of the response to the mentioned recommendations and the determination of correlation relationship between rural women response level to scientific recommendation with following :A-Social properties : Age , education level , agricultural practice ,information sources , Number of family members , agric, participation in activities. B-Economical properties : Number of plastic houses , machines possesion , income , production quantity , marketing family , vehicle. The sample was 107 women using plastic houses to grow vegetables , A quadrant scale had been used to measure the rural women response consisting of four levels : High-medium-low-non. Results shown that the highest value was 137 and lowest value was 111 degree , The scale included 48 term distributed on 9 fieled : Cultivaion land , soil sterilization , selection of suitable breeds , seedlings production , irrigation , fertilizing , warming –cooling –ventilation , disease and insects protection , harvesting and marketing . The research found that the increase in the level of response to the recommendations the Scientific will lead to increase the level of application of scientific recommendations developed for the cultivation of vegetables in greenhouses and finding direct significant correlation relationship between rural women level of response with the following independent factors : educational level , extension participation , source of information , number of plastic houses , income , machines possession , production quantity. Also, there was inverse relationship between response level with : age , family members , agricultural experience , family vehicle for marketing The researcher recommended to start training courses dealing with vegetables cultivation in plastic houses to raise the level of rural women level of response and application of scientific recommendations __ | ||
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