Maya Al-Abdalla*(1) Safwan Abou Assaf(1) and Afraa Sallowm(2)
(1). Socio Economic Directorate, Swaida Research Center, General Commission for Scientific Agricultural Research (GCSAR), Damascus, Syria.
(2). Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Damascus, Syria.
(*Corresponding author: Eng. Maya Al- Abdala. E-Mail: mayaabdala6@gmail.com).
Received: 23/06/2019 Accepted: 03/08/2019
Abstract
This research aimed to identify the most important variables (problems) in the poultry sector in the governorate of Swaida. Thus, to study the factors responsible for explaining the largest percentage of the total variance using the exploratory analysis. The research data based on a questionnaire that included problems according to the opinion of the breeders during the season 2018. This questions targeted a random sample of 104 breeders, which were equivalent to 50% of the total statistical size of the targeted community. The research sample consisted of the breeders of poultry sector in the province of Swaida. The analysis method based on the use of the exploratory analysis, using the principal components method, and the orthogonal rotation of the axes in the Varimax method. The results showed that there were four factors significantly combine the twelve study variables, where these factors had an eigenvalue greater than one each, and they accounted for 64.722% of the total variation. These factors represented feed problems, quality of the production requirements, quantity of chicks and increasing of fodder prices. Specifically, they explained about (19.385%, 18.736%, 13.374% and 13.226%) respectively of the total variance.
Key words: Exploratory factor analysis, Rotation, Varimax method, Poultry.
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