Al Anssary, H., Abu Zeid, A. (2013). FARMERS' PROBLEMS FOR THE PRODUCTION & MARKETING PEANUTS YIELD IN ISMAILIA GOVERNORATE. Journal of Productivity and Development, 18(2), 231-251. doi: 10.21608/jpd.2013.42574
Hesham Nasr Al Anssary; Abu Mossallm Abu Zeid. "FARMERS' PROBLEMS FOR THE PRODUCTION & MARKETING PEANUTS YIELD IN ISMAILIA GOVERNORATE". Journal of Productivity and Development, 18, 2, 2013, 231-251. doi: 10.21608/jpd.2013.42574
Al Anssary, H., Abu Zeid, A. (2013). 'FARMERS' PROBLEMS FOR THE PRODUCTION & MARKETING PEANUTS YIELD IN ISMAILIA GOVERNORATE', Journal of Productivity and Development, 18(2), pp. 231-251. doi: 10.21608/jpd.2013.42574
Al Anssary, H., Abu Zeid, A. FARMERS' PROBLEMS FOR THE PRODUCTION & MARKETING PEANUTS YIELD IN ISMAILIA GOVERNORATE. Journal of Productivity and Development, 2013; 18(2): 231-251. doi: 10.21608/jpd.2013.42574
FARMERS' PROBLEMS FOR THE PRODUCTION & MARKETING PEANUTS YIELD IN ISMAILIA GOVERNORATE
Agricultural Extension and Rural Development Research Institute & Agricultural Research Center, Egypt.
Abstract
The research aimed to identify the most important problems which face the respondents, farmers for the production and marketing of peanuts yields in Ismailia Governorate, and to determine the nature of the relationship between the knowledge of the respondents, farmers For there the problems of production & marketing of the yield degree and all the studied independent variables, and to determine the percentage contribution of each variable of variables independent correlation of the moral interpretation of the degree of variation in the degree of knowledge of farmers in the study with the problems of production & marketing of the yield of the research study. This research was carried out in Ismailia Governorate on a systematic random sample of (319) farmers for the peanuts crop, data were collected during the months of January and February 2013 by personal interview use of the questionnaire and a form prepared for this purpose, the statistical analysis of data was the use of simple correlation coefficient, and the model of regression analysis and the multiple correlation gradual upward ( Step - Wise), and the arithmetic mean in addition to the tabular presentation repetitive and percentages and averages calculations. The main results are as follows: The results have shown that the most important problems which face the subjected farmers of peanuts yields in Ismailia Governorate are : lack of knowledge of the treatment of the seeds with the bacterial vaccination especially in the new lands & grounds, the high cost of organic fertilizers necessary for the crop, lack of knowledge & skills of the subjected farmers concerning the use of Agricultural gypsum, lack of knowledge of treating the seeds with fungal Disinfectants prior to farming, the high cost irrigation, the high cost of maintenance of the irrigation stream, lack of water necessary for irrigation & its unavailability in the periodic times & the lack of the knowledge of the periods between each & the next irrigation, the disqualification of irrigation waters because of the high percentage of salt in it, the unavailability of chemical fertilizers necessary for the crop , the high cost & prices of chemical fertilizers & the lack of the knowledge about the environmental harms due to the misuse of chemical fertilizers , the scarcity of the use of potassium fertilizers because of its high cost, while there are marketing problems that face the subjected farmers in the field of selection grading & packaging; the most important of which are not carrying the selections & grading, the increase of infected & whole of the heads above the normal average (due to the decrease of the price) & lack of clarity in the difference between packaging for the local markets & the exporting ones , the high cost of packages.