A strategic vision formulation for Egyptian agricultural extension ‎‎system using SWOT analysis

Shallal, Ahmed; Mahros, Samia; Amer, Salah M; Abd Elrahman, Zainab

doi:10.21608/sjas.2022.145783.1240

A strategic vision formulation for Egyptian agricultural extension ‎‎system using SWOT analysis

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ Rural Sociology; Agric. Extension Dept., Faculty of Agriculture, Ain Shams University, Cairo,Egypt.

² Rural Sociology ; Agric. Extension Dept., Faculty of Agriculture, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.

³ جامعة عین شمس-کلیة الزراعة -قسم المجتمع الریفی والارشاد الزراعی

⁴ Rural Sociology; Agric. Extension Dept., Faculty of Agriculture, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.

10.21608/sjas.2022.145783.1240

Abstract

The research aimed to determine the future vision of the agricultural extension system to achieve Egypt Vision 2030 in the field of environmental sustainable development on climate change circumstances through use SWOT analysis and detection of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. The descriptive approach was used and the survey method was used by a questionnaire as the only research tool used to ‎collect data from the respondents‏, and the study data collected purposively represented by all the agricultural extension experts responsible for planning in the Central Administration for Agricultural Extension Services ‎‎(CAAES)‎ at the national level in the Arab Republic of Egypt (all members of the study population). The frequencies, percentages, weighted arithmetic mean, relative importance, and order of the internal and external environment SOWT analysis‏ ‏‎was achieved by using SPSS. A set of visions were reached by identifying the highest score of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats to the agricultural extension system.
The main results of this research are summarized as follows:
- Clarify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats
- Clarify the concepts and relationships that exist between the different aspects (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) of the agricultural extension system.
- Four different visions have been formulated that can be adopted by the agricultural extension system to achieve Egypt Vision 2030 in the field of environmental sustainable development on climate change ‎circumstances.
- Opens the door for further studies and future research in the same field or in any of the current research aspects

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