The current status of farmers' adoption of some recycling techniques for secondary products of the most important main crops In Some Villages In Beheira Governorate الوضع الحالي لتبني المزارعين لبعض تقنيات تدوير المنتجات الثانوية لأهم المحاصيل الرئيسية ببعض قرى محافظة البحيرة

Abstract

The research aimed to study the current situation of farmers adopting the techniques of secondary products recycling for the important main crops in three villages of the Beheira Governorate. The simple random sample amounted to 180 respondents, representing 5% of the total. The results: 51.1% have low exposure to agricultural knowledge sources, 68.9% have a negative and neutral attitude towards environmental protection, 41.7% have high knowledge of secondary products recycling techniques, their most important knowledge sources are parents and neighbors 93.3%, their own experience 87.8 65.56% of them adopted low crop by-product recycling techniques, hay ranked first in adoption with average 20.55, secondly silage work 17.13. There are correlations between number of family members, exposure to agricultural knowledge sources, social participation and the rate of adoption of crop techniques of secondary products recycling. The last four variables explain 42% of the variance for adoption of techniques of secondary products recycling.