Dairy Cattle Farmers' Implementation of Good Agricultural Practices in Gharbia Governorate تنفيذ مربي ماشية اللبن للممارسات الزراعية الجيدة بمحافظة الغربية

This study aimed mainly to identify the level of dairy cattle farmers' implementation of good agricultural practices in Gharbia governorate. Gharbia governorate has been chosen as spatial field for the study, two districts in Gharbia governorate were selected according to the standard of milk production which are Qutour and Zefta. One village was selected randomly from each district according to the same standard which are Ibshaway Al-Malak, and Damanhur Al-Wahsh, respectively. Random samples of 320 dairy cattle keepers were chosen. Research objectives have been specified in a set of null hypotheses to be tested in this study. Data were collected from sample persons by personal interview questionnaire. Collected data were coded and analyzed using the SPSS package.
The main findings of the study could be summarized as follows: -
1- There were statistically significant bivariate relationships at the level of 0.01 of significance between academic qualification, dairy cattle ownership, opinion leadership, innovativeness, perception of access of extension services, and knowledge of good agricultural practices in dairy sector and between implementation of good agricultural practices; while there were no statistically significant bivariate relationships between age, and experience in raising and caring of dairy cattle and between implementation of good agricultural practices.
2- The studied independent variables combined, explained about 59.6 % of the variances of the variable of implementation of good agricultural practices.