Contribution of some societal practices in rationalizing farmers' usage for irrigation water in some villages of Assiut governorate, Egypt

Research aimed to identify contribution of the studied some societal practices in total and detail in rationalization of the researched farmers 'usage of irrigation water, in some villages of Assiut governorate which are: prescriptive education, social control, organizational coordination, cooperation, farmers' participation, social adjustment, and social conflict. Too determining correlation between the studied independent variables and societal practices and the relative importance to contribution of this societal practices. Too determine the contribution ratios of independent variables with significant correlations, in explaining the total variation in respondents 'responses towards the total and overall contribution of the studied societal practices in rationalizing farmers' usage of irrigation water. Individuals of research sample were randomly selected from the registry of holdings for year 2019 in selected villages. To determine sample size of this research, 11.61% from total researchers was determined, which amounted to 2,670 farmers. Sample size reached 310 farmers. Who were distributed among the selected villages, according to their percentage in the overall research. Data of this research were collected through a personal interview with respondents from farmers using a questionnaire. This was prepared, and made sure of its validity to collect data, to achieve aims of this research. Time for data collection took from October to December of 2019. Data were analyzed using factor analysis and weighted average. To presentation of results using of frequencies and percentages. Most important results: 50.2% of respondents possess an area of less than an acre, and 50% of them consist of a once area, and 87.4% of them have the method of irrigating their lands by flooding. Most of the respondents fall into the high category due to total societal practices of Irrigation extension, social control, organizational coordination, and cooperation, and less than half of them fall into participation and social adjustment. While more than half of the respondents fall into the low category of societal practices related to social conflict. More than half of the respondents fell under intermediate category, at Percentage of 54.8%, in their view to contribution of societal practices in their rationalization usage of irrigation water and 37.8% in high category. Most important societal practices that contribute to the rationalization of farmers 'usage of irrigation water were, in order: Irrigation extension, social control, organizational coordination, cooperation, farmers' participation, social adjustment, and social conflict. It was also evident that the independent variables with significant correlation were age, irrigation method used, and leadership, which contributed 22.4% in explaining overall variation of societal practices in rationalizing farmers' use of irrigation water.