الشخصية وخصائص التقنية على تبني‬ ‫المزارعين‬ ‫لتقانات حصاد المياه بولاية شمال كردفان‬

Abstract

ABSTRACT The study was carried out to determine the impact of the personal characteristics and technology characteristics on farmer adoption of water harvest techniques on gardud land soils for food security program North Kordofan- Sheikan Locality. The main objective of this study was to measure the impact of farmer personal charactaristics like age, level of education, level of income .holding size, and technology characteristics like relative advantage, sutiablity for use on adoption of water harvest techniques such as using chisel plough, contour line or terraces. Agronomic parctices (thinning – improved seeds – ete). The study was implemented on randomly selected three villages Primary data were secured from 67 respondents who were randomly selected out of 670 farmers as target group on adoption of water harvest techniques on gradud area. The researcher used the social survey approach through personal questionnaire designed for data collection. Data were analysed using statistical package for social sciences (SPSS). Descriptive analysis techniques were used and chi–square test also was used at asignificance level of (0.05) to test the hypotheses. The study revealed that : - 40.1% of the respondents were in the age group of 35-44 year. - 55.2 % of the respondents were illiterate. - 62.7 % of the respondents had an annual income of less than 1.8 million Sudanese pounds. - 62.6 % of the respondents did not use contour lines or terraces Chi - sqyare test for significance level showed that : - There were significant realationship between the application of chisel plough and level of education that means the level of education had positive impact on adoption of application of chisel plough. - There were significant relationship between the building of contour line and the level of income that means the level of 6 income had positive impact on adoption of building of contour line. - There were significant relationship between the tillage cost and application of chisel plough that means the tillage cost had negative impact on adoption of application of chisel plough. - There were no significant relationship between the farmers holding size and building contour line that means the farmers holding size had no impact on adoption of building countour line. - There were no singificant relationship between the age and adoption of thinning practies that means the age had no impact on adoption of thinning practies. Finally the researcher recommends the following :- 1- The importance of accessibility of funds for the farmers for plough operations and contour raising. 2- Releveant government institutions are advised to pay more attention for this technology. The gradud soil reclamation programme should be supported. 3- More altention should be given to expansion of illiteracy eradication campaigns and another educational levels should enhance their offerings of skills in agricultural producation