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Agricultural extension in the field of protection of the rural environment from pollution uses many extension methods in order to disseminate new information and ideas among farmers to bring about desired behavioral changes whether in their knowledge, skills or attitudes. The extension methods and their aids are the way of agricultural extension in carrying its messages to its different farmers. Therefore, the research aimed at identifying the general characteristics of the respondent farmers, identifying the sources of information from which the respondents draw their information on how to protect the rural environment, and identify the extension methods Determining the relationship between the degree of the respondents' knowledge of the technical recommendations for the protection of the environment and the independent variables studied according to the studied guidelines, to identify the effectiveness of the guiding methods. In reducing the pollution of the rural environment, identifying the problems faced by the respondents in protecting the rural environment from pollution and their proposals to overcome them. The research was conducted on a sample of 252 respondents in Sharkia Governorate selected from four More polluted centers were selected so that a village was selected from each center and the data were collected using a questionnaire form prepared to achieve the research objectives during the months of November and December 2018, and a number of statistical methods were used: repetitions, arithmetic mean and variance analysis. The environment is (25.4%) of respondents who have low knowledge of the technical recommendations for protecting the rural environment from pollution, (12.7%) of the total respondents knowing the technical recommendations for protecting the rural environment from pollution (medium, 61.9%). The respondents were acquainted Technical recommendations for the protection of the rural environment from pollution are high, due to the fact that most of the recommendations for the protection of the rural environment from pollution are considered one of the basic recommendations known by most respondents, and the biggest differences in knowledge of methods of protecting the rural environment from pollution according to the guiding methods (practical illustration). An average of about 38.83 degrees followed by a demonstration meeting with an average of 38.64 degrees followed by field visits with an average of 38.29 degrees followed by more than one method together with an average of about 37.49 degrees. The most effective in the knowledge of respondents to methods of protecting the most important proposals of the respondents to protect their environment from pollution are to help the peasant in the disposal of agricultural and domestic waste, reduce the use of pesticides, and not to burn agricultural waste in the land [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]