Analytical Study of the Attitudes of Irrigated Vegetable Growers towards the Problems Affecting Production in Swaida Governorate

Abstract

The research aimed to analyze the attitudes of irrigated vegetable growers towards the problems affecting the production in Swaida governorate. In addition, it aimed to link between farmers’ attitudes towards problems and some factors affecting them. The data based on a questionnaire targeting irrigated vegetable growers during 2020 season. Using a three-point Likert scale and applying some statistical tests of hypothesis and correlation coefficients. The sample size was 106 farmers represented 48.06% of the studied statistical population determined by the number of wells allocated for irrigated vegetables. The results showed that the attitude of the technological progressing problems axis is ineffective, the axes of problems related to employment, natural factors, and marketing appeared in medium attitudes, while the axis of production requirements appeared in a strong attitude. A negative significant correlation was found between the axis of agricultural technological progress and each of the two variables of the total actual irrigated area, and the depth of the well, were recorded -0.209*, -0.252**. respectively. It was found that there is no independence between settlement zones, type of well, categories of actual cultivated area and the axis of problems of agricultural technological progress and between settlement zones and natural factors axis. The ANOVA showed that the variables (settlement zones, well type, crop number categories, and actual area categories) did not affect most of the averages of the problem axes, thus the stability and concentrate of these problems. It was only found that there is a statistical significance of the differences between the averages of the axis of natural factors problems, for the settlement zones (first, second, third), and statistically significant differences between the averages of the axis of agricultural technological progress and settlement zones, well types, the actual farm area variable categories (< 18 d, 20-65 d, >70 d).