Agricultural Environment Pollution Factors and Methods of Treatment them from the Viewpoint of Agricultural Employees in Tikrit District, Salah Aldin Governorate

Abstract

The research aimed to determine the size of agricultural pollution environment from the point of view of agricultural employees in Tikrit district Salah al-Din Governorate and determining the difference in the respondents’ viewpoints about the size of the agricultural environment pollution according to the personal factors of agricultural employees represented in (age, gender, educational attainment, number of years’ service, work location, contact with information sources communication). After that arranging ways to deal with the pollution of the agricultural environment from the point of view of the respondents in descending order. The research included all agricultural employees working in the agricultural departments in the district of Tikrit, whose number is (68) employees. A simple random sample of 75% was taken, and thus the number of respondents became (51) respondents. A questionnaire was prepared to collect the data required for the research. Which included three sections. The first section included the personal factors of the respondents. The second section included (20) factors representing that caused the pollution in the agricultural environment, while the third section included (15) paragraphs representing methods of treatment the pollution of the agricultural environment. Several statistical methods were used to achieve the goals such as (ssps program, range, average and frequencies). The results showed that the size of the pollution of the agricultural environment is large and tends to average from the point of view of the respondents, as it was found that there is a significant difference in the averages of the categories of most of the studied factors. The researcher concluded the importance of treatment the causes of pollution and reducing its impact to maintain the growth and productivity of cultivated crops, and the need for the respondents to be exposed to modern sources of information about the risks of environmental pollution and methods to treat it, to enable them to take appropriate measures to reduce the impact of pollution in their work area. The researcher recommends reducing the activities that cause pollution of the agricultural environment and increasing the sources of information for agricultural extension workers to familiarize them with the causes and risks of environmental pollution and methods to treat it.