The level of tomato growers' application of scientific recommendations in the district of Al-Alam / Salah Al-Din Governorate and relationship with some variables
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level tomato growers' application, scientific recommendations, agriculturalAbstract
The research aims to measure the level of application of tomato growers of scientific recommendations in the district of Al-Alam / Salah Al-Din Governorate, as well as to find a correlation between the level of farmers’ application of scientific recommendations and personal variables, namely (age, ownership of agricultural equipment, participation in extension activities, and the purpose of cultivating the crop, And sources of information about the tomato crop) as well as identifying the problems faced by the tomato crop growers in the district of Al-Alam, the research community included all the (454) farmers of the tomato crop in the district of Al-Alam. After excluding the exploratory sample of (30) farmers, a random sample of (30%) was selected, thus bringing the total number of the research sample to (127) farmers. It included a test consisting of 40 items distributed over seven areas (land preparation, planting date, method, variety selection, fertilization, irrigation, pest control, maturity, and harvesting. Several statistical methods were used to analyze the data (range, Pearson and Spearman's law, and T-test).
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