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A Study of Some Variables Related To Farmers
Knowledge and practices of the post Harvesting
processes of Tomato Crop
By
Naglaa Abd EI~ Samie Imarah
Summary
One of the major problems that resulted from over-population is the
raising demand for food, which in turn caused what so called the ” Food
Gap ’’. Narrowing this gap only Occur through scientific solutions that aim
to raise the food productivity by developing agricultural production
process taking all the stages into consideration. A very effective way to
raise food supply is to reducie the loses in agricultural production. The
importance of vegetable as a whole, and Tomatoes in specific for local
conswnption, food industry or exportation stemmed from their role as a
cornmon component in human food.
Speaking about the software of Tomatoes’ production; Agricultural
Extension is consider one of the main institutions that works to defuse
knowledge and make fanners aware of the up-to-date and valid
recommendations concerning Tomatoes post harvesting processes.
Despite that there are rather few studies that aimed to measure
fanners’ knowledge and practices con<:eming loses reduction in Tomatoes
post harvesting processes.
Hence, this study aims to identify the personal and situational
variables affecting knowledge and practices’ change concerning Tomatoes
post harvesting process, also to examino the percent these variables
contribute to explain farmers knowledge and practices.
The objectives of the study is to :
1. Identify interviewees knowledge concernmg Tomatoes post
harvesting process
2. Identify interviewees practices concerning Tomatoes post harvesting
process
3. Examine the relationship between fanners’ degree of knowledge
concerning Tomatoes post harvesting process and the each of the
following variables :
a. Age
b. Educational status.
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c. Interviewees’ degree of ambitious for their kids’ education
and future profession.
d. Interviewees’ standard of living.
e. Farm size.
f Area of Summer Tomatoes planted.
g. Average yield of Summer Tomatoes.
h. Degree cosmopolitans,
i. Degree change agent contacting.
j. Degree opinion leadership.
k. Degree exposure to some mass media.
1.Degree informal social participation.
m. Degree extension activities participation.
n. The amount of Tomatoes loses .
o. Degree fatalism.
p. Interviewees’ attitude toward some Agricultural innovation
,degree.
q. Achievement motivation degree.
4. Determine pencentag of contrbution of the independent variables
significantly correlated with the interviewees’ knowledge concerning
Tomatoes post harvesting process that explains the total variance.
5. Examino the relationship between the degree of interviewees’ practices
concerning Tomatoes post harvesting process and the studied
independent variables.
6. Determine pencentag of contrbution, of the independent variables
significantly correlated with the interviewees’ practices concerning
Tomatoes post harvesting process that explains the total variance.
7. identify information sources the interviewees deal with to acquire
knowledge concerning Tomatoes post harvesting process
The study was condacted in three villages of Qualubia district,
Qualubia Governorate which were : Nay, Qualube Kibli and Kown
Ashfien. The farmers’ sample size rated to 270 Tomatoes growers and
was determined using ”Krejcien and Morgan’s” Equation and was drawn
using Tomatoes farmers’ lists in the villages’ coops. The data were
collected during August 1995 by interviewing farmers using questionnaire
after testing it on 30 farmers in Qualubia Bahari village and make the
necessary modifications. The data were analyzed using: Average, simple
correlation coefficient, and step wise analysis.
The study revealed the following results:
1. The degree of interviewees’ awareness of most knowledge were
relatively high except for:
_ Some varieties such U.C. 3-97, Florid~ Estreen, BVF 145 - b 7879,
Marmound, Super marmound.
_ Collecting full grown green Tomatoes.
_Collecting Tomatoes in the afternoon.
_Using scissors to collect Tomatoes.
_ Advantages of the suitable way to collect Tomatoes to prevent fungi
infection.
_Using plastic containers and ( Makate±)* covered with jute as
collecting packages.
_ Specifications of Tomatoes collecting containers such as
shallowness.
- Marketing packages.
- Cargo spacing.
2. The degree the interviewees apply most of the practices was shown
to be rather high except for:
_Collecting Tomatoes in the afternoon.
_Using scissors to collect Tomatoes.
_Using plastic containers and ( Makatet) covered with jute as
collecting packages.
_Using suitable marketing packages.
_ Stacking Tomatoes marketing packages without (tawshish) process’.
_leaving suitable spacing between packages on transportation.
3. There was a significant and positive relationship on 0.01 level
between interviewees’ knowledge concerning Tomatoes post
harvesting process and each of the following variables : age, the
degree of social non-formal participation, attitude toward some
agricultural innovations, Tomatoes cultivated area size and, the
average Tomatoes produced by the interviewee. The same
relationship was shown to be significant and negative on 0.01 level
with the degree of fatalism.
4. The variables of fatalism, holding area cultivated with Tomatoes
and age contributed significantly on 0.01 in the total variance
xplaining the degree of interviewees knowledge concerning
Tomatoes post harvesting ’process . The total contribution rated to
5.8% distributed as 2.4% , 2%, and 1.4% respectively.
*Local collecting package with two handles, made of dates leaf .
• Making the packae look finer by putting high ranked t on top and the
lower rank at the bottom of package.
5. There was a significant and negative relation on 0.01 between the
degree of interviewees I practices applied concerning Tomatoes post
harvesting process and his standard of living, while it was on 0.05
with fatalism.
6. Fatalism and standard of living variables contributed significantly
on 0.01 in the total variance explaining the degree of interviewees
practices applied concerning Tomatoes post harvesting process .
The total contribution rated to 4.4% distributed as 2.7%, and 1.7 %
respectively.
7. Interviewees’ information sources concerning Tomatoes post
harvesting process widely varied. The personal contact with local
sources was the most important, as the relatives and neighbors came
first, followed by marketing merchants and personal experience,
while the extension agent, TV, and formal education institutions
came last.
The applicable results of the stud}’ can be summarized as foRows :
1 - Planners and executives of the potential extension programs must
consider filling the knowledge and practices’ gap for tomatoes’ growers
and dealers concerning tomatoes’ post harvesting processes in the
studied area and the like, focusing especially on the under-leveled
knowledge and practices revealed by the study.
2 - Planners and executives of potential extension programs must focus on
the variables that contribute in affecting tomatoes’ knowledge
concerning tomatoes’ post harvesting Processes, i.e., fatalism, the
summer tomatoes cultivated area and grower’s age, also, the variables
of the growers’ standard of living and fatalism that affecting their
practice.
3 - The attention of potential extension programs planers and executives
must be driven to use the sources of information that depend mainly on
personal relations and face-to-face communication when defusing any
knowledge related to tomatoes post harvesting Processes.
4 - More research is needed in the field of tomato post harvesting
processes to reveal the other personal and situational variables
contributing significantly to the total variance to explain the degree of
change in tomato growers’ knowledge and practices in the studied area
and the like.