Knowledge and Executive Behavior of Maize Growers in the Integrated Management of Convolvulus arvensis Weed in Some Villages of Beheira Governorate

Zayed, Mohamed El-Sayed Ahmed; Habiba, Hany Mohamed Abdel-Aal

doi:10.21608/alexja.2024.278519.1068

Knowledge and Executive Behavior of Maize Growers in the Integrated Management of Convolvulus arvensis Weed in Some Villages of Beheira Governorate "السلوك المعرفى والتنفيذى لزراع الذرة الشامية فى الإدارة المتكاملة لحشيشة العليق فى بعض قرى محافظة البحيرة"

Document Type : Original Article

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Agricultural Extension and Rural Development Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center, Giza, Egypt.

10.21608/alexja.2024.278519.1068

Abstract

Key words: Behavior; Cognitive; Executive; Convolvulus arvensis; Maize.

The research aimed to identify the extent to which the maize crop is infected with Convolvulus arvensis, the ways of its spread, the extent of its development and the reasons for that, and the damage caused by it from the point of view of the respondents, and to identify the level of knowledge and implementation of the respondents of the technical recommendations for the integrated control of Convolvulus arvensis in the maize crop, and the diagnosis of Determining the system of relative priorities for the technical recommendations affecting the rate of infection of the maize crop with C. arvensis through the assessment of the surveyed farmers for the degree of importance, difficulty and generality of each recommendation, and identifying the most important sources from which the surveyed farmers derive their information, as well as their proposals to improve integrated control methods for C. arvensis in the research area.

The research was conducted in Beheira Governorate, and the three districts that are characterized by the cultivation of large areas of the maize crop were selected, namely the district of Abu al-Matamir, Hawsh Issa, and Al-Delegat. Three villages were selected as the most infected and damaged by C. arvensis in the maize crop by a village from each district. The village of tragi was from the district of Abu Al-Matamir, the village of Al-Razimat from the district of Hosh Issa, and the village of Sakran from the district of Delengat. A regular random sample of 285 respondents was selected from a total of 1081 farmers in the selected villages according to the equation (Kreijci and Morgan), and the data was collected using a questionnaire form in the personal interview during the months of September and October 2023, and frequencies, percentages, mean, standard deviation, and range were used in presenting the results.

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