Activating the Role of Agricultural Guidance in Managing Agricultural Risks in North Sinai Governorate

Document Type : Original Article

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1 Department of Environmental Administrative, Economic and Legal Sciences, Institute of Environmental Studies, Arish University, Egypt.

2 Department of Plant Production، Faculty of Environmental Agricultural Sciences، Arish University, El-Arish 45511, Egypt.

3 Department of Environmental Management, Institute of Environmental Studies, Arish University, Egypt.

Abstract

The research mainly aimed to activate the role of agricultural guidance in agricultural risk management from the point of view of agricultural guides، by identifying the level of risk management from the point of view of the respondents، as well as identifying the variables associated with and affecting the level of agricultural risk management for the respondents، identifying the level of prevalence of agricultural risks and the priority of intervention in them from the point of view of the respondents، identifying the cognitive needs of the respondents in relation to the steps of agricultural risk management، identifying the problems facing the agricultural guides surveyed in agricultural risk management، identifying the proposed solutions to address the problems facing the respondents in agricultural risk management، and to achieve the objectives of the research، a random sample of agricultural guides was selected and the sample items were selected randomly using the ideal bag method. (50%) of the total agricultural guides in the governmental agricultural institutions in Arish were selected، which amounted to (260) guides، and thus the total sample of agricultural guides surveyed in the study area amounted to (130) respondents who were selected from the governmental agricultural institutions in Arish، and the results showed that (68.5%) of the respondents had a low level of agricultural risk management، while (27.3%) of the respondents had an average level of agricultural risk management، and (3.8%) of the respondents had a high level of agricultural risk management.

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