Application Level of Environmental Safe Agricultural Practices Among Vegetable Farmers In The Nineveh Governorate

jamil saleh; Khalaf Jassim Al-Harawi; Abdul Aziz Hameed Midhas

doi:10.47134/jbea.v3i4.1209

Authors

Ahmed Hamad Al-Dokhi Tikrit University
Khalaf Jassim Al-Harawi Tikrit University
Abdul Aziz Hameed Midhas Mosul University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.47134/jbea.v3i4.1209

Keywords:

Agricultural Environmental, Practices, The Farmers' Vegetables, Level Of Education, Age, Experiences and Rural and Cites

Abstract

The aim of this study was to determining the application of vegetable farmers in Qaber Al- abed village/ Hammam AL- Aleel Area / Ninevah governorate, for the agricultural environmental practices in general and arranging these agricultural environmental practices according to the level of application for the vegetables farmers in Qaber Al – abid village /Hammam Al- Aleel / Nineveh governorate and determining the correlation between the vegetables farmers for the agricultural environmental practices and some independent variables . This research included all the farmers' vegetables in Qaber Al- Abid village /Hammam Al- Aleel / Nineveh governorate which are 200 farmers. The data were collected by questionnaire after testing face validity and reliability and then we analyzing the data by used the arithmetic mean, spearman rank and the correlation person. The results showed that the farmers level application for the agricultural environmental practices was moderate tend to increasing and also the results show that were a significant correlation between the farmers' level of application for the agricultural environmental practices and the level of education while the results show also there is no significant correlation with (age, number of working year in agriculture and specialty in planting vegetables). The research included some of conclusions and recommendations

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