RURAL WOMEN'S KNOWLEDGE FOR RURAL GREENHOUSE AGRICULTURE PROJECTS IMPLEMENTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION AND TRAINING IN THE PROVINCE OF BABYLON

M.A.Salma,; S.T.Najib,

	RURAL WOMEN'S KNOWLEDGE FOR RURAL GREENHOUSE AGRICULTURE PROJECTS IMPLEMENTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION AND TRAINING IN THE PROVINCE OF BABYLON
The Iraqi Journal of Agricultural Science
Article 1, Volume 46, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 870-875
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Abstract
This study was conducted to diagnose the rural women's knowledge in rural greenhouse agriculture projects including all the following fields such as knowledge in greenhouse constructing, the plastic material Specifications used in covering the greenhouse, soil sterilization, cultivation methods for example irrigation, fertilization, plant directing, pesticides used in greenhouses, and identification of relationship between level of knowledge in all the independent factors such as age, educational level, economic situation and the size of the holding. The study community included 654 rural women and a random sample of 92 (14%) rural women. A measuring scale to measure the women's knowledge of greenhouse cultivation consisting of 8 fields, 28 axes and 76 paragraphs was constructed and one degree was identify for each true paragraph and zero for the false paragraph ranged from 76 for the higher degree and zero for lower degree. The study results concluded that the level of rural women knowledge in greenhouse cultivation was low and there was a significant relationship between rural women knowledge and each of the educational level, economic situation and size of holding and there was a negative correlation with age. The study recommends that an increase in extension activities for rural women is needed to encourage them on participating in such as activities with providing full support to them.
Keywords
Rural women; agricultural in green house

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