EXTENSIONAL EVALUATION OF THE ADAPTATION PROJECT TO CLIMATE CHANGES IN THE MARGINAL ENVIRONMENTS IN SINAI PENINSULA

The research was basically conducted to define the impact of the adaptation project to climate changes in the marginal environments, on knowledge and practices of livestock keepers. To identify the way of integrated management for marginal lands via the packages of farm practices, producing milk and dairy product. Moreover, the significant differences between the average degrees of experimental and control groups in terms of the study aspects, which were farmers' knowledge and practices of manufacturing fodder crops and animal products and respondents' knowledge and implementing on producing dairy products on the scale farm, problems that farmers faced and the suggested solutions.
The study was carried out at Sahl El Tina area and south of El Quantara Sharq area.  It included two samples, the first one represented the experimented sample contained 180 of the total respondents, who benefited from the project activities; the second one represented the control sample comprised 180 farmer respondents. Data were collected via interviewing the respondents using questionnaire forms. The two samples were selected in a randomized systematic way from July through August 2015.
      Some statistical methods were used to present and analyze the date such as the replicates, percentage, mean, standard deviation, T test and the average.

Results indicated that 63.5% of respondents had low knowledge for the control sample versus 56.8%  of high knowledge for the experiment sample. Famers' implementation to the extension recommendations were as high as 5.5% for the control sample; whereas respondents' implementation to the extensional recommendations was high with 29.7% for the experiment sample.
Results revealed that 77.8% had low knowledge of the technical recommendations on feed blocks for the control sample versus 51.8% as moderate for the experiment sample.
Results showed that 45.5% of respondents had high knowledge of the studied recommendations on making dairy products for the control sample versus 57.8% high knowledge for the experiment sample after implementing the project.
The most crucial problems that farmer respondents faced were high prices of concentrated fodders (85.5%), poor roads and transport (84.4%), poor agricultural extension service (80.0%), lack of veterinarian services (76.1%), inefficient activities of agricultural cooperatives (73.3%), lack of equipment and machinery maintenance  centers (71.1%), inefficient security services (56.1%), lack of irrigation water during the summer (51.1%) and high cost of skilled labor forces (49.4%).