The reality of the application of Scientific Recommendation in the poultry breeding in the District of Al-Sharqat/Salah Al-Den Governorate/Iraq

Abstract

The research aims to identify the application reality of scientific recommendations in the District of Al-Sharqat/Salah Al-Den Governorate in general, and in each field and item (question) of research fields, which included (field of poultry feeding, field of health care, field of management and attention to poultry and the field of hatching). Determine the correlation between the application reality of scientific recommendations and the independent variables in the research.The research community included all the poultry breeders from the farms owners in the district of Sharqat / Saladin Governorate, who registered in the Department of Agriculture of Shrkat (80 breeders), where the sample of research included all poultry breeders (100%) of the community of total research, after excluding the stability sample of the total population where the final number of the research sample became (50 breeders). It was depended on the (questionnaire) which consisted of two main parts: The first part contains a set of data related to the independent personal, social, economic and communication variables of poultry breeding, which are expected to be related to the application level of scientific recommendations in poultry farming (age, educational level, Number of years of work in poultry breeding, number of poultry owned, the purpose of poultry breeding and sources of information adopted in poultry breeding). The second part included (54 items distributed into four fields of research) related to the subject of poultry breeding, namely: (field of poultry feeding (19 items), field of health care (13 items), field of management and attention to poultry (12 items), field of hatching (10 items). In order to the measure of the application level of poultry breeders for the scientific recommendations, where the application level of poultry breeders to the scientific recommendations was measured through the development of four alternatives to answer on each items, which is (always apply, sometimes apply, rarely apply, not apply) (1,2,3,4) respectively, and through the answers of the respondent to all the research items (question of fields) we will obtain the final degree, which represents (the reality of scientific recommendations application in poultry breeding for each researcher in general and in each field of research fields).The results showed that the application level of poultry breeders to the scientific recommendations in the district of Al-Sharqat in general is medium and tends to high. Also found that the application level of poultry breeders to the scientific recommendations in the Salah Al-Den Governorate in the research fields (field of poultry feeding, field of health care, field of management and attention to poultry and the field of hatching) is medium. The results also showed there is significant correlation between the application reality of scientific recommendations and between the variables (age, educational level, Number of years the work in poultry breeding, sources of information adopted in poultry breeding). The authors recommends that the Directorate of Agriculture in the Salah Al-Den Governorate and the Agricultural Division in the region to develop and support of poultry breeders of fields and strengthen information, knowledge, information and participate in training courses specialized in poultry breeding.