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المستخلص Agricultueal mechanization could be cifined as the 8ubstitution of muscular power of man and animal by mechanical power in producing farm products .Agricultural mechanization could be categorized into partial mechanization where machines are used to fullfil one process or several processes, and comprehensive mechanization where all pperations on the farm are mechanized • Mechanization becomes a necessity to agriculture because of lack of man power, increase of agricultral area intensification of agriculture, to save time, reduce costs of production, to speed up :••• operations, control of water used in irrigation to increase production and decrease losses to a minial rate • Economic growth mean. the cWRulative increaae in both the national and individual income which results fro. better utilization of accessible resources. Agricultural progress is of primary importanc in economic growth because of ita -ajor role in promoting of non agricultur~l sectors. Some workers envisage three steps for economic development. Frist step deals with the setting-up of development environment, secand deals with education , scientfic research and training, and thrid step deals with accumulating of funds in amounts enough to finance the mechanization program • ---- --~.------------------ -2- ~ae survey and sample analys~~ :- Tbi.study has bean conducted in kalubia Governorate. Several villages were chosen for this survey. Elhisa and Elhadadin were chosen as example of mech~~ized farming and conventional farming where, as Elshomote, was chosen as an example of a semi-mechanized farming. The ,u••wtaal•• was ap applied on a ’o:undred.fort;;~ fa’:;::>:’lo3. For”’:-] .farll from each village were interviewed with the uelp of an questi~ consietiD.3 of four major parts. These were, personal information, social, preference of type of farping, cost esti~tes of some operations of growing cotton and wheat in both convengional and me~hahhzed farming and the last part is related to the probl- _3 facing spread of _ chanization and sug3estion to liolving them • The sample surveyed covered different a3s groups, educational status, profession, family size of l~nd holding, types nf h~lding akd size of labdirused either fro~ withen the f~ily or outside. The sample was gDouped according to the previlud crit8ri~ ~3 percent~ges from the total number. Type of farming preference WeiS found to correlate with the above mentioned criteria. When the relationship between - , - u.sing X2 results were signig:1”cant at the ~ 5 level of significance bat ween the educational status, marital status,profession size of land holding and preference of mechanization. Ho.ever, the relat ionship (- P ::: 0.65, df::: 1) was not certain between age, type of land holding, family labour and non ~ily labour and prefereace of type of mechanization ’rhe sampled villages wera arranged according to their pl)oduction and income as follows, the mechanized farms the conventional farms and finally the semi- mechanized farms effect of mechanization on cost of some agricultural operations was estemated and wes foand that pereentage manpower capital and tbe average requrement of both per feddin d1mjnshed as area increased f It waSfound thattbe total variaple costs reached its maxiaum in case of the tradit1nal village, variable costs tended to decrease’ with mecnanzation thus, the effect of mechamization was evident R_ffect of mechanization on total costs :- ....-...-------------------------_.-....-- Data . ollected on production and variable costs of - -,- ----’- - - - - - - - -” - - - ~-_.-----_.-.~_. 4 production were analysed using the regresiion producedure to determine linearity or curivilinearity of these functions. All functions were assessed and those with coeffecieut of sui taole signs t in terms of’ econoari.c aL logict and significance cance of coeffecents war. selected. ~9~Q~~zation helped in reducing dependence on ~~i~al ann thus several working hours by animal were eaved. these animals could be directed to prcducing more milk and m~t. |