A study of group work requirements for dealing with marketing problems among farmers in tow villages in shobrakhit district, El-Behira governorate

The purpose of this study was to explore the requirements of group work among Farmers in order to assist them in marketing their agricultural crops in tow villages in Shobrakhit district. The specific objectives were: Identifying some socio - economic characteristics of the interviewed farmers, Identifying farmer s perception for group work requirements, and their willingness to participate in it, and identifying the marketing information s sources for researched farmers, as well as their utilization and confidence in these sources. The research data was collected by using elaborately Questionnaire through interviewing 115 farmers as a representative sample in the selected two village communities; Mostenad and Shobrakhit. Main statistical methods used for data analysis included; Tabular presentation, mean, and percentage distributions. The major findings of this study indicated the following: i- Socio- economic characteristics of the respondents as a whole reflected their need to overlap and integration relations through team work organizations, which increase the opportunities for exchanging information, experiences, and development of production and marketing farmers' capabilities. 2- The percentage of farmers who were awarded of the benefits of group work and its requirements ranging from 66 % - 86.1 % of respondents, and those who have the readiness to meet the requirements of group work and participate in it were 47 % - 83 % of the respondents. 3- The most prominent sources of marketing information available for the majority of respondents were; personal experiences, the indigenous knowledge from friends and neighbors, markets, and merchants. On other hand 94 % of the researched farmers indicated that the benefit from these information's sources were medium or limited. 4- The degree of confidence among respondents in information's sources which they expose varies by variation of those sources, however, the degree of confidence in personal experiences and markets as sources of information were higher than other sources.