Knowledge level of milk and meat cattle breeders in Qena governorate, Egypt

Abstract

This research aimed at determining the Knowledge level of the researched breeders with regard to the indicative technical recommendations related to the operations of raising, feeding and caring for milk and meat cattle, and determining the relationship between the Knowledge level of the researched breeders and the independent variables studied, and identifying the problems facing the breeders researched in the breeding, feeding and care of milk and meat cattle from their point of view. The research was conducted on a sample of breeders who have livestock in Qena Governorate, which has a strength of 370 educators, and they were randomly chosen through the selection of the two largest centers in the governorate in terms of the number of breeders with livestock, namely the Dishna and Abu Tisht centers, and then the largest village was chosen from each of the centers mentioned in terms of the number of breeders who have livestock, as the village of Al-Samta was chosen as a marine for the Dishna Center, and the number of respondents was 269 educators and the village of Bahri Samhoud from the Abu Tisht Center has reached the number of respondents by 101 educators. Data were collected from the respondents through a personal interview using a questionnaire. The data was used to display and analyze the frequencies and percentages, weighted average arithmetic, proportional conformity test (Ka2), and the coefficient of coefficient, and the data was processed and analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). The research reached many results, the most important of which are:
- More than half of the respondents (51.6%) had a total Knowledge level with recommendations for raising, feeding, and caring for milk and meat cattle was low, while more than a third of the respondents were 36.5%, their cognitive level was average with those recommendations, while 11.9% of the respondents, their level of knowledge was high with those recommendations.
- There is a moral relationship between their overall Knowledge level with the recommendations of raising, feeding and caring for milk and meat cattle, and between the educational level, the number of years of experience in livestock raising, information sources, and the trend towards agricultural extension.
- The most important problems facing breeders researched in the breeding, feeding and care of milk and meat cattle are: the high price of feed and the lack of government support, the weak extension services provided, the small number of veterinarians, and the weak veterinary services provided.