الفهرس 
شكر وعرفان
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Abstract
Agriculture represents the most important economic sector upon whic~ prosperity in both developed and develpping countr¬ies depends. In developing countries, the majority of populat¬ion are engaged in agriculture. This is the main reason that calls for rapid development of that sector of the economy. Generally development, particulirly of the rural part of poor countries aims to secure reasenable standard of living for the majority of its residents. Development entails both material and human beings who constitute the core of all policies for achieving progress. Therefore, this study aims malnly at ident¬ifying the perception level of farmers towards the characteris¬tics of agriculture innovations as represented in new types of high yield variety of wheat, mechanical leveling of the soil, planting wheat and its mechanical harvesting. This state of perception plays also an important role in decision-making toward adopting these agricultural practices,
Favourable perception of farmars helps to understand and realize the importance of agriculture innovations and streng¬thens the factors that encourage their early adoption. Therefore, the study aims to discover the factors that lead to change farmers attitude for the sake of developing their communities and conseque¬ntly the nation as a whole. Besides, the perception level of
farmers, the study aims to discover the factors associated with favourable attitudes toward the above mentioned agriculture practices among agriculture extentionists operating in Minia governorate. It attempts to reveal the major factors which increase their perception of new techniques in agriculture. This knowledge helps us to increase extentionists’ role in learning about new agriculture practices and ways and means of trasfering them to farmers. It also helps extentionists to motivate farmers to make positive decesions concerning adoption of new ideas and agricult¬urepractices. Their state of perception determines the extent
to which they play effective role in development of policies and utilizing educational methods to teach farmers new knowledge and experiences that lead to increace their productivlty and effective use of available resourses. The study also attempts to identify difficulties that hinder extentionists work and their educational role in the ~ealm of agriculture production as well as general aspec~s in ~he community. Added to these are the efferts to identify the most important methods of commincation and sources
of knowledge from which farmers and extentionists derive inform¬ation about agriculture practices. Other objectives are concerned with the important characteristics of innovations that facilitate their easy and prompt perception.