Importance of Extension Activities Carried out by Agricultural Cooperative- Leaders and Its Relationship with Some Variables in Sharkia Governorate

research aimed to identify personal characteristics of local agricultural cooperative leaders, identify degree of importance of agricultural extension activities from respondents' point of view, determine the relationship between the total degree of importance of extension activities from point of view of the respondents as a dependent variable, and the independent variables studied .The research was conducted in Sharkia Governorate, which has the largest number of members of the boards of directors of agricultural cooperative societies, which are (2,642) members.
The Krejci and Morgan equation was used to determine the size of the sample, which amounted to (340) respondents. Data was collected by a questionnaire during August, October (2022). Frequencies, percentages, mean, range, standard deviation, Pearson's simple correlation coefficient, were used to present and analysis study data .
The main results of the research are: 37.7% of respondents point of view that the total degree of importance of agricultural extension activities is medium, and 31.4% of respondents point of view that total degree of importance of agricultural extension activities is low, and 30.9% of respondents point of view that total degree of importance Agricultural extension activities is high, There was a significant relationship at level (0.01) between total degree of importance of agricultural extension activities as a dependent variable, and both number of years of education, degree of orientation towards extension work, degree of information of cooperative leaders about some extension concepts, degree of importance of agricultural resources Information.