Adoption level of technologies knowledge and information by Potato growers in Nineveh Governorate/ Iraq

Abstract

The research objective is to define the adopting level of technologies and agricultural extension by farmers in cultivating potatoes in Al-Ghoba Region- Nineneveh Governorate, to know the level of adopting technologies and agricultural guidance for farmers in cultivating potatoes in Nineveh governorate measured by every research item and to find the correlation between the adoption of technologies and extension in planting potato with the independent variables of research. The society included all (500) potato farmers and a small random sample was chosen, representing (20%) of them. The final research sample was (100) farmers. Results showed, that level of adopting technologies and guidance was medium tends to be high, and the results had shown that the following variables (age, years of expertise, source of agriculture information) played an important role in accepting farmers for technologies and agricultural extension for growing potatoes.