Manifestations of climate change from the point of view of farmers in one of the villages of Desouk district, Kafr El-Sheikh governorate, Egypt

This research was conducted in the village of Kafr Majar, Desouk district, with the aim of clarifying the manifestations of climate change from the farmer's perspective in the research area, identifying the relative importance of these dimensions, and finally to identify the relationship between those aspects and some independent variables. The village of Kafr Majar was chosen randomly from the villages of Desouk district, and the owners of the village were (300) farmers. A total of 168 farmers were sampled. The data were collected using a questionnaire form through a personal interview with the sample members after conducting the initial test on it, during January 2020, and iterations, arithmetic mean, weighted average, correlation and regression analyze, were used to analyze and present the data. The most important results that were reached were identifying the relative importance of the three dimensions of the manifestations of climate change arranged according to the weighted average as follows: The dimension of the manifestations of climate change related to water is in the first, followed by the dimension of the aspects related to the environment in the second, and finally the dimension related to the aspects related to agricultural land and crop quality. The nine independent variables studied together explain (47.9%) of the variation in the manifestations of climate change from the perspective of the farmers, and that the most contributing variables in explaining the variation in the manifestations of climate change are achievement motivation, followed by the attitude toward change, then the educational status of the respondent.