Abstract

The Study aimed to identifying farmers' attitudes toward sustainable agriculture in Al-namrood district and determining variance of farmers' attitudes toward sustainable agriculture according to some the variables (Age, Agricultural Experience, Educational Level, and Ownership of Land). Data were collected through personal interviews using a questionnaire, 120 farmers, selected randomly which representing 17.14 % of the study population. Percentages, arithmetic means, and F test were used to analyze the data using through SPSS statistical Program.The study revealed 86.7 % of farmers generally have neutral to appositive attitude toward sustainable agriculture. The study showed that there is no variance between vegetables farmers' attitudes towards some practices of sustainable agriculture and research variables (Age, Agricultural Experience, Educational Level, and Ownership of Land). The findings indicated that farmers are aware moderately to the importance of sustainable agriculture in keeping of natural resources (landscape) and human health, as result weakness of agricultural research institutions in delivery of what are modern technologies for sustainable agriculture practices among vegetables farmers. For this the researcher was recommended that extensional training programs should be planned and executed in order to reinforcement the attitude of vegetables farmers towards sustainable agriculture as well as to extensional information campaigns to demonstrate importance of sustainable agriculture practices and manners of application it.

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