International Journal of Agriculture Extension and Social Development

author(s)
Dhoha M Abd Al Faraje

abstract
The research was conducted in the Nimrud district of Nineveh Governorate, and the research aimed to identify the role of agricultural extension in facing agricultural risks from the point of view of farmers in Nimrud district / Nineveh Governorate, and to identify the correlation between the role of agricultural extension in facing agricultural risks from the point of view of farmers and the following independent variables (level of education, age, number of years of work in agriculture, area of cultivated land, agricultural information sources) in addition to identifying the most important problems facing agricultural extension workers in Facing agricultural risks. The number of farmers in the district is about (600) farmers, of whom a random sample was taken by 20%, thus the percentage of the sample is (120) farmers. For the purpose of collecting data from the respondents, a tool must be prepared for data collection, which is the questionnaire form, which consisted of three parts, the first part, which included the data of independent variables. The second part is a measure of the role of agricultural extension in facing agricultural risks, while the third part included the most important problems facing extension workers from agricultural risks. The findings revealed that agricultural extension has a weak role and the findings indicated that the predictors (education, age, and cultivated land area) were better correlated with the extension role in confronting agricultural risks, while the other variables did not show any significant impact on the extension roles. The researcher also recommended increasing the interest of the Central Administration for Agricultural Extension in the field of agricultural risks, in particular, focusing on increasing agricultural extension services to prepare for the potential agricultural risks in the research area.