TRAINING NEEDS OF FISH FARMERS IN TAJI CITY OF BAGHDAD PROVINCE AND ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH SOME VARIABLES

Abstract

The objectives of this research were to identify the training needs of workers in fish farming, the importance of the training need in every field of fish farming, and to find a relationship between these training needs and fish workers personal characteristics such as academic education, the practice of other activity, and annual income. Research objectives are achieved throughout questionnaire form consists of two parts. The first part determines the personal characteristics of respondents, while the second part guarantees the gauge to measure the need for training educators which consist of 21 items distributed in four areas: Partitions for holding fish, utilization water, establishment of aquariums, and fish feeding, within a scale of 5 points as following: very large need, great need, moderate need, few need, there is no need, weighted as (5, 4, 3, 2, 1), respectively. Research population included all fish farmers in the Taji city, of 70 holders. A random sample was selected as 85% of the population and 60 holders. The research concluded that there was a moderate training need for the fish farms, and the partitions for breeding ranked first in terms of the importance of need. Also the results showed significant correlation between the need for training to fish farmers in fish farming and all of the annual income, and the practice of other activity, while there was significant correlation between the need for training of educators and academic education. The research recommends the need to held training programs to increase the efficiency of fish farmers with focus on fish feeding, and the establishment of fish partitions .