APPLICATION LEVEL OF WHEAT PRODUCTION RECOMMENDATIONS

O. Fayyadh, S.

	APPLICATION LEVEL OF WHEAT PRODUCTION RECOMMENDATIONS
The Iraqi Journal of Agricultural Science
Article 1, Volume 44, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 729-737
Author
S. O. Fayyadh
Abstract
Determining the level of farmers application of agricultural scientific recommendations related to the cultivation of wheat crop, is the basis for building extension effective programs stems from facts, contribute to increasing the quantity and quality of production. So this research is targeted to determine application level of wheat farmers of the scientific recommendations related to planting and servicing of the crop in general, as well as determining the level of application of each of the practices of planting and serving of the crop : prep airing the level for cultivation, planting the crop, irrigation, and harvesting. It the research also targeted to determine the relationship between level of application and some independent variables: Cultivated area, land tenure, contribution to income, and experience in wheat growing. The research also aimed at identifying the most important problems facing the farmers. To achieve research objectives a scale of application made of 26 items direly, depending on scientific research, placations related to crop, and views of some specialists. Two pouts are given to each item, there for, the range of the scale degrees ranges from 0-52. Research population included all wheat growers in Yousfiya and Al-Nasser and Al-Salam cities/Baghdad province's (3485 farmers). A stratified random sample in a ratio of 3.5% (122 farmers) was taken to represent the total population of farmers. Results showed that level of application of the farmers is described as medium. The results also showed that the level of application of the farmers in the process of preparing the land (soil) for the cultivation of the crop was higher compared with other processes studied. The results also showed absence of the elective extension role to help farmers to adopt now agriculture methods in growing the crop. As well as haring a significant positive relationships between the farmer's application and lands' tenure, and with the contribution to the income. The results of the researcher identified several problems facing wheat growers the most in portent of which was the weak materiel and non-materiel support from the government, which offsets negatively the production. Therefore the researches recommended that the Agricultural Extension takes his role to teach rural people and urge them to commitment to the scientific recommendations of wheat growing. The researcher also recommended increases the material and non-material support from the governments to wheat growers.
Keywords
Agricultural Operations; Independent Factors

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