EXTENSION REQUIREMENTS FOR RURAL WOMEN TO PRODUCE HEALTHY MILK AND DAIRY PRODUCTS IN FAYOUM GOVERNORATE

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The study aimed to determine the nutrition awareness level ofrespondents(rural women),define relative advantage of information sources inthe field of producing safe and healthy milk and manufacture its products,determine the implementation degree of the Recommendations in relation to thesame field, and finally define the association betweenThe studied variables and the implementation degree of the Recommendations.Study was conducted at Fayoum Governorate, Fayoum Etsa and Ibshwaydistricts, were selected as representive 59.3% of the total population of FayoumGovernorate, and 60.4% of the total number of households. One village fromeach district was selected . a random sample of rural women was selected (34women from each village) so the total number of respondents Researched to102 respondents4 findings could be summarized as follows:The nutrition awareness level of more than two thirds ofrespondents(68.6%), fall in high category of awareness self experience, friendsand neighbors, were the most important sources of information .the exposure toinformation sources was either average (64.7%) or low (33.3%) and more thanhalf of the respondents (56.4 %)had low benefit of it compared to 1.9% whohad high . findings also indicate that the most important practices which weremore interested to the respondents in the field of producing safe and cleanmilk were: periodic disclosure on animals and isolate the infected ones (3.37),but in relation to factors concerning milking ,these practices were: Choosingappropriate pots in terms of shape and composition (3.52).The most important practices concerning safe and healthy dairyproduction were as follows: a)for practices of cheese cottage it was sinteringaccording to the air temperature (3.39). b – cream, it was cream separatorsusing Lafraz (3.34), C -for butte, it was washing and squeeze (3.7), D – formargarine: it was filtering, packaging and storage (3.88) E –for yogurt it was:incubation (3.57), findings showed that about half of respondents (51%) fallinto the high of application level and there was an association relationship between the level of application of respondents practices for the production ofdairy healthy, safe and manufacture of its products and: wife age, educationallevel of both wife, and husband, work of both wife, and husband, type of animaltenure, standard of living, cultural opines cosmopolitenes, and finally benefitsof information sources.Findings also showed that the majority of respondents (85.3%) produceddairy products of self consumption, or to compliment relatives and neighbors(60.8%), or to got an additional income for family (49%).