Socio-Economic Variables Influencing on The level of Poultry Breeders ' Response to Information Agricultural Research Centers Related to Modern Technologies in Sulaymaniyah Governorate

Volume 17, Issue 2
Spring 2026
Page 117-123

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 University of Sulimany

2 Sulaymani University

Abstract
This study aims to the level of response of poultry breeders to the information of agricultural research centers related to modern technologies at the farm in Sulaymaniyah governorate and determine the relationship between poultry farmers' responses with in Socio-economic variables. This research was conducted in Sulaymaniyah governorate on a simple random of 162 researchers, representing 30% of the research community of 486 researchers. The data was collected by personal interview through a questionnaire form prepared for this purpose, and after testing and confirming its statistically for data collection; the data were collected then it’s processed and analyzed by SPSS Version22 Software. by using the following statistic: - Frequencies, percentage, standard deviation Spearman-Brown and Pearson’s.

The results were found that the level of response of poultry breeders to the information of agricultural research centers in general was is medium trend to negative and They make up 90.11% of the study community, And that there is a significant relationship between the level of response of poultry breeders to the information of agricultural research centers the following variables: Age, Educational Level, years of experience, types of technological ownership, Livelihood levels, while there is no significant relationship between the level of response of poultry breeders and Number of worker variable. This study recommended that to provide government and financial support to help breeders with limited income or partial ownership acquire technology and improve their productivity. The Ministry of Agriculture and water resources in the Kurdistan region should strengthen the role of agricultural research and extension centers by intensifying applied and field activities to transfer information and research results on modern technologies and disseminate them among poultry breeders.

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