Abstract
The research aimed at discovering the leadership behavior of the local rural leaders in Tal-Kaif district Nineveh Governorate from the farmers' point of view the research population All the local rural leaders and all the farmers in the district. A sample of 30 villages out of 99 has been randomly chosen and 30 leaders of these villages have been discovered, while a percentage of 10% of total number of the farmers which was 2078 has been taken. the data were elected through two a questionnaires, the first included the characteristics of the leaders, while the second to determine the leadership behavior of the leaders from the farmers point of view .after testing the validity & reliability of the questionnaire the final formula has been limited by 76 items, and after collecting and analyzing the data, the results showed that the leadership behavior of the local rural leaders was intermediate tends to rise according to the two dimension of the work and human relation together and in each of these dimensions separately. The results also showed that there is a very close match between what mentioned in the Ohio leadership behavior theory and the current research results, while the results contradicted with what mentioned in the theory that the two dimensions of the leadership behavior are independent from each other.
