LEVEL OF IMPORTANCE OF AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGIES FOR WHEAT CULTIVATORS IN RABEAA DISTRICT NINEVEH GOVERNORATE AND ITS RELATIONS WITH THEIR TRAINING NEEDS

Abstract

The objectives of this research were to determine the importance of Agricultural technologies for the wheat cultivators in Rabeaa District in Nenevah Governorate and to find out the relationship between the importance and training needs of the cultivators. The research sample included 144 respondents. A questionnaire was developed to collect the data which was analyzed by using the Arithmetic mean and percentage and spearman rank correlation. It was found that 63% of the respondent stated that agricultural technologies were highly important for their agricultural work, and 54% of then feel a high need for training. The item (How to use Deices insecticide for controlling Sunn pesta) get the first rank order for its importance and training need. It was also found that there is a significant correlation between the ranking of the research items according to their importance on one hand, and that of the training needs on the other.