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الباب الاوليوجد فقط 14 صفحة متاحة للعرض العام
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المستخلص
Man relays for a great deal in his survival on the environment
around him and its natural resources. This reliance depends much
on the extent of man’s understanding, control and utilizing natural
resources m the right way in parallel with conservation,
maintainance and reduction of pollution. Pollution then is one of
crucial issues emerged recently suppressing all environmental
aspects appearing as if it is the one and only factor.
As agricultural extension one of the most important nonformal
educailional systems covering the countryside that can play
a distinguished role in creating awareness about Environmental
Conservation Legislations (ECL) in its way to attain desired changes
in rural peoples knowledge, skills and attitudes. Agricultural
Extension’s role is no more limited to increasing crop yielding, but
exceeds that to many other fields including the developing,
maintaining and rational use of natural resources. Among the
activities included in this last field, rational utilization of agricultural
wastes, launch awareness compaigen targeting rural households to
respect and in force laws, regulations, polices and other legislations
drown by the government to keep rural environmental pollution
down. In the light of the scaricity of studies in communicating
awareness about EeL, and coping with the Ministery of Agricultural
and Land Reclamation’s policy that assigned communicating
awareness about EeL to the Agricultural Extension system, this
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study was conducted to identify the role of agricultural extension in
communicating ECL awareness through determining village
Extension workers’ (VEW) knowledge degree concerning ECL,
define the main variables affecting this knowledge and its
contribution ratio, and to identify the reasons behind home and farm
wasts wrong disposal.
Hence, this study was conducted aiming to :
1-Identify VEW s knowledge degree about ECL.
2- Identify Agricultural Extension’s role in communicating ECL
awareness in Qualubia Governorate.
3- Define the relationship between VEWs knowledge degree about
ECL and some personal, social, economic and communicational
variables.
4-Determine the relationship between the degree of accomplishment
of Agric. Exten. Role in communicating ECL awareness to rural
households and some personal, social, economic and
communicational variables.
5- Define contribution ratio of the variables significantly correlated
with YEW s knowledge degree about EeL in explaining the total
vanance.
6- Define contribution ratio of the variables significantly correlated
with the role of Agric. Exten. in cammunicating EeL awareness
to rural households in explaining the total variance.
7- Identify the reasons drive rural people to follow wrong disposal
practices of home and farm wasts from the viewpoint ofVEWs.
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8- Identify YEW s suggestions to communicate euvironmental
awareness to rural people concerning ECL in Qualubia
Governorate.
The study covered all districts of Qualubia Governorate ( i.e.,
Banha, Toukh, Qualub, Kafr Shokr, Shibeen EI-Qanater, EI-Qanater
El-Khairia and EI-Khanka). A random sample representing 66% of
the total YEWs in each district amounting to 132 YEW. Data were
collected during November and. December 1998 by interviewing
respondents using a pre-tested questionnaire. Parsons, simple
correlation coefficient, Step wise, percentages and means were used
to analyze data statistically.
The main results of the study revealed that:
1-YEW s knowledge degree about ECL were either moderate or
relativily high.
2-Agricultural Extension’s role in communicating ECL awareness
was relativily high.
3- YEW s knowledge degree concerning ECL correlated positivily
and significantly on 0.01 with each of information sources degree
and respondents educational degree. The two variables
contributed by 8.880/0 and 6.880/0 respectively totaling 15.760/0 in
explaining the variance in the knowledge degree.
4- The role of agric. Exten. in communicating ECL awareness
correlated positivity and significantly on 0.05 with each of the
respondent’s exposure to mass media and his job satisfaction. The
two variables contributed by 4.400/0 and 2.760/0 sequentially
totaling 7.16% in explaining the total varience in the role’s
degree.
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5-VEW s reported that the main reasons driving rural people to
follow home and farm wasts wrong disposal practices were
unavailability of healthy sewage in the village, unavailability of
junk yards, quick and easy ways of disposal are not known, and
the lack of extension programs to aknowledge correct ways to
benefit from home and farm wasts or correctly dispose it .
6- The main suggestions drown by VEW s to spread environmental
awareness were: to held extension meetings to make rural people
(villagers) acquianted with EeL, to give more concern to radio
and ,TV programs targeting this field, and the provision of
extension bulletins supported by EeL .