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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]

This research aimed to identify the characteristics of the respondent farmers growing wheat crop, and to identify the informations sources where they get the agricultural knowledge, to identify the respondent farmers knowledge about the extension recommendations, to identify the degree of implementation of the extension recommendations, to identify the most important problems facing farmers in cultivating and harvesting wheat crop, to identify farmers' suggestions and proposals to benefit from the extension fields. This research was carried out in Sharkia Governorate. The sample included 150 respondent farmers. The sample divided into three types: extension fields, neighbour fields, and border fields, each type includes 50 fields. The results showed that there are three categories according to the level of knowledge: Low, medium and high. The results showed that 6.7% of the respondent farmers lie in the low level and they were from neighbour fields. 34% from the extension fields and 60% from the neighbour fields and 14% from the border fields were in the medium category. The three types of fields have the same percentage in the high category of knowledge. The study indicated that the most important problems that face wheat farmers in the extension fields were high prices of pesticides and chemical fertilizers (98%), high prices of seeds (94%), non-contracted before marketing the crop (88%), non availability of seeds in the agricultural cooperatives (76%), lack of labor and high labor wages (54%), shortage of irrigation water especially in the critical stages (44%). The farmers in the neighbour fields face problems of high prices of pesticides and chemical fertilizers (98%), high prices of seeds (92%), non-contracted before marketing the crop, and non-availability of seeds in the agricultural cooperatives (84%), lack of labor and high labor wages (74%), shortage of irrigation water especially in the critical stages (70%). The farmers in the border fields face high prices of pesticides and chemical fertilizers (88%), high prices of seeds (82%), non-availability of seeds in the agricultural cooperatives (70%), non-contracted before marketing the crop (66%), shortage of irrigation water especially in the critical stages (64%), lack of labor and high labor wages (56%). The results indicated that there were several proposals and suggestions to increase the effectiveness of the extension fields of wheat. These proposals were: lowering prices of pesticides and chemical fertilizers (98%), reducing prices of seeds (94%), provision agricultural mechanization (54%) availability irrigation water in the critical stages (44%), the extension agents must follow up the farmers (42%), selecting the extension fields near the high ways (40%), increasing the number of the extension fields (34%) and simplify and ease the extension recommendations (30%). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]