THE FACT OF FIELD ADMINISTRATION CLARIFICATIONS PROVIDED TO RICE FARMER PREPARED IN THE AREAS OF INTENSIVE AGRICULTURE AND MECHANICAL TRANSPLANTING IN NAJAF PROVINCE

Abdull-Razak, A.; Qais, J.; T. Najib, S.; A. Abd, T.

	THE FACT OF FIELD ADMINISTRATION CLARIFICATIONS PROVIDED TO RICE FARMER PREPARED IN THE AREAS OF INTENSIVE AGRICULTURE AND MECHANICAL TRANSPLANTING IN NAJAF PROVINCE
The Iraqi Journal of Agricultural Science
Article 1, Volume 44, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 710-718
Authors
A. Abdull-Razak; J. Qais; S. T. Najib; T. A. Abd
Abstract
The research aims to diagnose the field clarifications reality of intensive agriculture and automatic transplanting projects provided for rice growers and to identify the extent to which farmers benefit from the clarifications provided for them. The research included 2208 rice farmers in the Al-Najaf province and samples were selected randomly of rice farmers by 4% and by 88 farmers. Diagnosing of the field clarifications management reality provided to the rice farmers have been done by the preparation of a map calendar that included 28 items distributed on five areas: Organization, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation. The farmer's advantage has been identified by the binary scale yes or no. The degree of benefit has been identified by three levels: great benefit, medium and low and the aspects of benefit were identified beside the reasons of lack of advantage by leaving respondent to choose more than one aspect advantage and more reason not to take advantage of the clarifications and the credibility of the scale was used with its preliminary image by submitting it to a group of experts in the Department of Counseling. the stability scale was used by conducting a pretest to classify rice farmers and the reliability factor was 0.77, and data were collected regarding the field clarifications reality management provided to rice farmers through an interview with the director of planning and director of field crops as well as access to records and documents and reports issued by the Authority's general guidance and agricultural cooperation. Regarding the farmer's benefit, data was collected through personal interviews. The results showed the absence of scientific specialization in field clarifications division beside the absence of professional regulation in rice crop and the lack of participation in planning Commission and the absence of employees in the Authority's general guidance and agricultural cooperation in the implementation process reliance on the directorates, divisions and centers and farm extension and the lack of field clarifications for the rice crop and the absence of follow-up and evaluation of the field clarifications of the intensive agriculture and mechanic transplanting projects and the weakness of advantage of these clarifications. We recommend the need to increase the number of field clarifications and the involvement of researchers and specialists in the implementation process, particularly in the areas occupied by the crop and the activation of taking advantage of these clarifications.
Keywords
field observations; bilateral scale; pretest

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