Document Type : Articles
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Department Economic and l Extension Agricultural, college of Agriculture, Tikrit University, lraq
Abstract
The study aimed to determine the knowledge level of grape growers with the most important tree service operations and the outcome in Ishaqi sub-district | Salah al-Din governorate in general, and to determine the correlation between the knowledge level of grape growers and some independent variables, the Ishaqi district was chosen as an area to conduct the research in which grape cultivation is spread in (5) agricultural districts for conducting the current research, the research community included all (995) grape growers in Ishaqi district, a random sample of (20%) was selected from them. The number of farmers who represent a sample, the research (199) farmers, a questionnaire included two parts: the first included the independent variables, and second: included (87) representing measuring the knowledge level distributed over nine areas to measure the knowledge level of grape growers with the most important crop service operations.. The initial test was conducted on the initial test sample of 30 farmers from the research community and from outside the research sample for the purpose of calculating stability using the cronbach,s Alpha Where the value was 0.88, and the validity coefficient was 0.93, the results of the research showed that the general level of grape growers with the most important tree service operations, and the result in Ishaqi district | Salah al-Din governorate average tends to decline, and the results of the research showed that there is a significant correlation between the level of knowledge of grape growers and of The exploited variables (age, educational level, training courses, contact with information sources),. The researcher recommended the need to provide grape growers with information and scientific expertise and applied, and scientific recommendations on the cultivation and service of grape trees through the intensification of field visits and agricultural extension activities such as extension seminars, extension publications.
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