Agricultural education
Mohammad Reza Mahboobi; Mahboubeh Rezaie
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this study was conducted in 2022 to identify the factors affecting the decline of inclination of rural boys towards agricultural profession. The research approach was quantitative nature, an causal-correlational type, and a field data collection method. The statistical population consisted of all rural ...
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this study was conducted in 2022 to identify the factors affecting the decline of inclination of rural boys towards agricultural profession. The research approach was quantitative nature, an causal-correlational type, and a field data collection method. The statistical population consisted of all rural boys aged 15 to 24 living in the villages of Baharan district in Gorgan County, with a total of 1588 individuals. A multistage random sampling method was used, and the sample size was determined using Morgan's table, with a total of 309 individuals selected for the study. The research instrument was a questionnaire with nominal, ordinal, interval, and relative scale questions. The face validity of the questionnaire was assessed through the opinions of the faculty members of the Agricultural Education and Extension Department at the Gorgan University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, as well as the experts in extension from the Agricultural Jihad Organization of Golestan Province. Its reliability was measured using the ordinal Theta coefficient (θ = 0.83). According to the order of importance, the factors affecting the rural boys' tendency towards the agricultural profession were identified as follows: vocational, natural-supportive, economic, cultural, legal, and technical-social factors. These factors explained 52.46% of the total variance in the variables affecting the rural boys' lack of inclination towards the agricultural profession.
Agricultural education
Sima Kazemi; Gholamhossein Abdollahzadeh
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Keeping operations management has a very important role in increasing the Citrus crop yield and extension training is one of the important strategies to familiarize gardeners with the keeping operations management of Citrus orchards. In this regard, this study was conducted to determine the role of various ...
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Keeping operations management has a very important role in increasing the Citrus crop yield and extension training is one of the important strategies to familiarize gardeners with the keeping operations management of Citrus orchards. In this regard, this study was conducted to determine the role of various factors in the attitude, skills and knowledge of Sari gardeners in the field of Citrus operations with emphasis on extension training in 2020. The view of the research was quantitative in terms of the nature of the subject, the type of research was descriptive and causal-comparative and in terms of the method of data collection was survey. The statistical population consisted of two groups of trained and untrained gardeners. With simple random sampling method and using Morgan table, 120 trained gardeners and with multi-stage random sampling method and using Cochran's formula, 120 untrained gardeners were selected as the research sample. The results of the Median test showed that there is a significant difference between the two groups in terms of components of attitude about nutrition and pruning, skill of nutrition and integrated pest management and knowledge of nutrition, pruning, integrated pest management and irrigation. The results of Friedman test showed that extension training had the most roles on the attitude component and the least role on the skill component in the field of Citrus keeping operations.
Agricultural education
Mohammad Reza Mahboobi; Atieh Yavarzadeh; Mohammad sharif sharifsharifzadeh
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In the current situation, the management of universities are facing the challenge of attracting students and the need for them to have a different mental image of the university in the competitive market of higher education. This applied research was conducted to investigate the effect of students' mental ...
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In the current situation, the management of universities are facing the challenge of attracting students and the need for them to have a different mental image of the university in the competitive market of higher education. This applied research was conducted to investigate the effect of students' mental image of Gorgan University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources on their perception and expectation of the quality of educational services and was performed using a quantitative research method based on the survey. The statistical population of the study was composed of 500 students. The Krejcie and Morgan table was used to determine the sample size and 216 students were selected by the stratified random sampling method as the study sample. The research instrument was a questionnaire whose validity was confirmed by a group of experts. The reliability of the questionnaire was confirmed by pretest and Teta coefficient (Ө = 0.928, 0.889, and 0.919). The differences between respondents' perceptions and expectations of the quality of educational services using the Wilcoxon test showed that in most cases, the average perceptions of respondents are higher than their average expectations of the quality of educational services. Findings of the Spearman correlation test showed that there is a negative and significant relationship between respondents' perceptions of the quality of academic services and their mental image of the university brand, but there is a positive and significant relationship between respondents' expectations of the quality of academic services and their mental image of the university brand.
Sara Parsiani; Mohammad Reza Mahboobi; Gholamhoessin Abdollahzade; Mahnoosh Sharifi
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The aim of this research was to identify and explain the functions and capabilities of facilitators to promote rural women's entrepreneurship so that the results can be used to integrate facilitation in agricultural extension. This survey research was conducted in rural areas of Galikesh county, Golestan ...
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The aim of this research was to identify and explain the functions and capabilities of facilitators to promote rural women's entrepreneurship so that the results can be used to integrate facilitation in agricultural extension. This survey research was conducted in rural areas of Galikesh county, Golestan province. The statistical population of this study included facilitators and rural women of Galikesh county. The respondents (n=204) were selected by stratified random sampling. The research tool was a researcher-made questionnaire that was developed based on the literature review and interviews with a group of key informants in the form of a tri-dimensional model; its content validity according to the opinions of the expert group, and its reliability by calculating Cronbach's alpha coefficient [α = .964, α = .960 ] and C.R. [.967, .962] was confirmed. According to the findings, most of the respondents evaluated the functions of facilitators (47.06%), the capabilities of facilitators (52.94%), and the facilitation impacts (46.57) at a moderate level. According to the Spearman correlation coefficient, there is a positive and significant relationship between the three components of facilitation functions, facilitation capabilities, and facilitation impacts. According to the structural model test, the research variables explain 75% of the variance of the dependent variable, the consequences of the facilitators' activities, and the independent variable of capabilities explains 58.9% of the variance of the mediating variable of functions.
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Corporate entrepreneurship is an important factor in the development and improvement of economic performance and wealth creation and can play a very important role in improving the performance of an organization.This research aimed to investigate driving factors of entrepreneurship development in agricultural ...
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Corporate entrepreneurship is an important factor in the development and improvement of economic performance and wealth creation and can play a very important role in improving the performance of an organization.This research aimed to investigate driving factors of entrepreneurship development in agricultural engineering, technical and consulting services companies in Alborz province. Statistical population included all employees of these companies (N=207). According to Cochran formula, the sample size was determined (n=119). For multi-stage random sampling method was used for sampling. The validity of the questionnaire was approved by some members of the professional department of agricultural extension and education. Its reliability coefficient was approved using ordinal theta (α= 0.78- 0.91). Friedman test showed that between four driving factors of entrepreneurship development, behavioral factor (with components including leadership style, entrepreneurial characteristics of managers, organizational culture and organizational communication) have the most importance. Factor analysis showed 57/765% of the variance of environmental factors of driving factors of entrepreneurship development in agricultural engineering, technical and consulting services companies in Alborz province explained by three factors which named as social support, legislating, meritocracy and convergence and two-way interactions. This research recommended attention of companies managers to delegation of authority, participating creative and innovative employees to solve companies problems and legality to create an atmosphere of healthy competition between companies in order to entrepreneurship development in agricultural engineering, technical and consulting services companies.
