Obstacles to adopting smart agricultural methods in Tartous Governorate

Abstract

This research aimed to study the determination of the basic obstacles facing farmers to evaluate the level of awareness of smart cultivation methods. , and provide practical recommendations to enhance the adoption of these methods and achieve sustainable development in the province. To achieve the objectives of the research ,the descriptive analytical approach was adopted by using a set of indicators such as Relative frequencies, Means, drawings and graphs and the Anova contrast analysis test. The results showed that one of the most important obstacles to adopting smart cultivation methods is that all its technologies are not available within the reach of farmers, and with relative importance and the high costs of adoption, and and this is due to the low income of farmers, fear Of risk and possible losses of unprecedented results of smart crops, it wax also found that the most encouraged proposals to adopt smart crops from the point of view of farmers, was to secure agricultural loans necessary to buy and possess smart farming technologies, and while the least proposals were to improve communication networks, and that is, there are somewhat good communication networks to activate smart farming technologies in the event of their availability and not from the basics that hinder adoptions according to opinions Farmers,