A study of wheat farmers application of technical recommendations for management and maintenance of the center pivot irrigation system in Salah al-Din Governorate, Republic of Iraq

Atiyah, Muneer Basheer; Amer, Salah Mohamed; Mohamed, Heba Nour Eldin

doi:10.21608/sjas.2022.132331.1210

A study of wheat farmers application of technical recommendations for management and maintenance of the center pivot irrigation system in Salah al-Din Governorate, Republic of Iraq

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¹ Rural community and agricultural extension,faculty of Agriculture ,Ain shams university

² Department of Rural Society and Agricultural Extension - Faculty of Agriculture - Ain Shams University - P.O. Box 68 - Shubra Gardens 11241 - Cairo – Egypt

10.21608/sjas.2022.132331.1210

Abstract

This research aims to :determine the degree of application of the wheat farmers to the technical recommendations in management and maintenance of the center pivot irrigation system, identify the significance relationship between the degree of application, and the independent variables, Determine the degree to which farmers benefit from the center pivot irrigation system . The research was based on the social survey method by selecting a random sample of 242 wheat farmers under the pivot irrigation in Salah al-Din Governorate in the Republic of Iraq during August 2021. percentages, Pearson's simple correlation coefficient, and Step-Wise multiple regression analysis method were used to analyze the research data.
The results indicated that: The degree of application of the technical recommendations by the farmers in the management and maintenance of pivot irrigation was average, and there was a significant correlation between the following independent variables: the degree of attitude towards innovations, the degree of attitude toward agricultural extension, the degree of participation in extension activities, The educational level of the farmers, the number of center pivot irrigation systems, and between the degree of application of the farmers to this recommended technical recommendations as a dependent variable, and these variables contributed to explaining about (46.7%) of the variation in the degree of application of the surveyed farmers to the recommended technical recommendations in the field of management and maintenance of the pivot irrigation system .
The results showed that the degree to which the respondents benefited from the center pivot irrigation system was average.

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