Farmers knowledg and implementation for recommendatins of integrated control of cotton pests in sharkia governorate

This rasearch aimed at achieving the following objectives: Identifying the general characteristics of farmers, To identify the degree of farmers' knowledge for recommendations of integrated control of cotton pests,and determine factors are related with it, to identify the deree of farmers' implementation for these recommendations, and determine factors are related with it, to identify the degree of farmers' attitudes towards for htese recommendations and determine factors are related with it, to identify the reasons of farmers desire to continue or not on plantation cotton crop, to identify the extension services for cotton farmers, to identify the relative importance of information sources that farmers get their agricultural information ,to determine the most important problems that face farmers and their suggestions to solve it This reseach was carried in Sharkia Governorate on random sample consists of 255 respondents during 2007. The results revealed that 49,8% form farmers, knowledge for recommendations of integrated control for cotton crop pest were law and medium, 45,5% form farmers, implementation for recommendations of integrated control for cotton crop pest were law and medium, and 52.9% from farmers, attitudes towards integrated control of cotton pests were low and medium. The results showed that 79.6% for farmers are not desire to continue of plantation cotton while 20.4% are desire to continue on plantation it The important extension services from the view point of farmers were providing the pesticides and how to use it, times of spraying, question from diseases and pests providing fertilizers and how to use and times of fertilization and giving cotton seedes, the important problems that face farmer were increasing of prices for pesticides, fertilization, labors.