TY - JOUR ID - TI - Knowledge Needs For Agricultural Employees In Agricultural in- stitutions southwest Nineveh Governorate In the aspect control of desertification الحاجات المعرفية للموظفين الزراعيين في الشعب الزراعية الواقعة جنوب غرب محافظة نينوى في مجال مكافحة التصحر AU - Maher Ibrahim dawood ماهر ابراهيم داود الجبوري PY - 2014 VL - 14 IS - 1 SP - 78 EP - 84 JO - Tikrit Journal for Agricultural Sciences مجلة تكريت للعلوم الزراعية SN - 18131646 26640597 AB - The research aimed identifying knowledge needs of the agricul- tural employees in the agricultural offices of southwest province of Nineveh in the domain control desertification and determine the rela-tionship between knowledge needs and some variables. the research population consisted (105) agricultural employees of the population. Data was collected through a questionnaire after testing face validity.Reliability was tested by half split method which was. (0.88) and data analysis used the means, frequencies and dup Spearman rank correlation. Results showed that about (69.33%) of the respondents their needs knowledge in the domain control desertification medium has received the drought and the reduction of damaging rank order with a mean of (4.142) and the results show there is no significant correlation between knowledge needs to respondents and the follow-ing variables (age, level of educational, duration of employment in work, specialization and previous training and level of exposure to sources of agricultural information). The research has included someof the conclusions and recommendations.

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