Agricultural education
Reza Movahedi; Soraya Moradi; Taraneh Sarami Froushani
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Rural women need empowerment in various dimensions., as an effective group in rural communities development. The present study aims to examine the educational empowerment of rural women and the educational, promotional, economic, and social factors affecting it in the context of sustainable agriculture, ...
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Rural women need empowerment in various dimensions., as an effective group in rural communities development. The present study aims to examine the educational empowerment of rural women and the educational, promotional, economic, and social factors affecting it in the context of sustainable agriculture, conducted in the year 2023. The statistical population studied consists of 2,054 rural women from 12 villages in Islamabad Gharb County, who are directly involved in agricultural activities. From those, 324 individuals were selected as the samples using Morgan's table during a simple random method. This applied research is correlational-causal and conducted through a survey using a questionnaire. The content validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by experts, and the average variance extracted (AVE) was validated at 0.613. The reliability of the questionnaire was measured based on ordinal Alpha (ranging from 0.75 to 0.93) and composite alpha (ranging from 0.78 to 0.94) through a pre-test process. Data analysis was performed using the statistical software SPSS Ver. 23, Smart PLS 3, and statistical methods like correlation and confirmatory factor analysis. The results of the extracted beta coefficients from path analysis based on the PLS output showed that economic factors, extension education factors, governmental and organizational factors, and social capital had the highest impact on the educational empowerment of rural women, with coefficients of 0.303, 0.280, 0.277, and 0.271, respectively. It needs to motivate rural women through workshops and supportive-motivational programs, encourage their self-organization, and enhance their knowledge and attitudes regarding sustainable agriculture and food security.
Agricultural education
Zahra Eskandari; Moslem Savari; Masoud Yazdanpaah
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This research was conducted with the general purpose of factors affecting the use of organic fertilizers by rice farmers during rice cultivation. The statistical population of this research consists of 4700 rice workers of Dezful County, and the sample size was estimated based on the Kerjsi and Morgan ...
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This research was conducted with the general purpose of factors affecting the use of organic fertilizers by rice farmers during rice cultivation. The statistical population of this research consists of 4700 rice workers of Dezful County, and the sample size was estimated based on the Kerjsi and Morgan table, using the cluster sampling method of 360 samples. The data collection tool was a questionnaire. The formal and content validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by experts' opinion and its reliability was confirmed through Cronbach's alpha coefficient. The research data were analyzed with the help of SPSS26 and Smart Pls software. The results of the research showed that the variables of self-efficacy, attribution of responsibility, awareness of the need, effectiveness of the response and awareness of the consequences have a positive and significant effect on the moral norm of rice farmers towards the use of organic fertilizers in rice cultivation, these variables are able to be 64.3% Explain the variance of the moral norm variable. In addition, the results showed that moral norms have a significant effect on the behavior of rice farmers towards the use of fertilizers directly and indirectly through the variables of pride and guilt. Finally, it can be said that the norm activation model is an efficient model in this field because it was able to explain 57.8% of the behavior of rice farmers.
Agricultural education
Moslem Savari; Fatmeh Naghibayranvand
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This research was carried out with the general purpose of the role social capital in the use of good agricultural practice. The statistical population of the research included all the farmers of Khorram Abad county. Sample size using Cochran's sampling formula, 380 farmers were selected for the study ...
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This research was carried out with the general purpose of the role social capital in the use of good agricultural practice. The statistical population of the research included all the farmers of Khorram Abad county. Sample size using Cochran's sampling formula, 380 farmers were selected for the study by stratified sampling method with proportional assignment. The main research tool was a questionnaire whose validity was confirmed by a panel of experts and its reliability was confirmed by Cronbach's alpha coefficient. Data analysis was done in two sections of descriptive and inferential statistics by SPSS software. The results showed that the studied farmers do not use good agricultural practice well, and the behaviors of "not burning crop residues" and "using biological and biological fertilizers" are used more than other good agricultural practice. In addition, the results of the regression coefficient showed that the dimensions of social capital (social participation, social norm, social awareness, collective action, social trust) can explain 63.9% of the variance of good agricultural practice. In general, it can be said that the results of this research can provide new insights for policymakers in this field in order to expand sustainable agricultural operations.
mosayeb gholami; Abdulhamid papzan
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Today, engaging in conservation agriculture is an undeniable necessity, and the knowledge, attitudes and skills of farmers in this field can help to develop conservation agriculture. The purpose of this study was to investigate the knowledge, attitude and skills of farmers in Kermanshah Province in the ...
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Today, engaging in conservation agriculture is an undeniable necessity, and the knowledge, attitudes and skills of farmers in this field can help to develop conservation agriculture. The purpose of this study was to investigate the knowledge, attitude and skills of farmers in Kermanshah Province in the field of conservation agriculture. Statistical population of this study was farmers in Kermanshah Province. The sample size was determined by Bartlett et al. (2001) (n= 370) and sampling was done in a multi-stage manner. The content validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by the panel of experts and the convergent validity was done through calculation (AVE), which was equal to 0.76. In order to measure the reliability of the questionnaire, the ordinal theta coefficient was used and an acceptable value was obtained. Findings showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between educational level, attending educational-extension courses, income, work experience, amount of owned lands, attitude towards conservation agriculture and knowledge of conservation agriculture with the use of conservation agricultural practices. The results also showed that the studied farmers have an appropriate and positive attitude towards conservation agriculture. Farmers' knowledge of conservation agriculture was also good, but their skills in conservation agriculture were assessed as low. Therefore, in order to develop conservation agriculture in Kermanshah province, it is suggested that agricultural extension planners make every effort to increase the skills of farmers in the field of conservation agriculture.
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The purpose of this descriptive survey study was to measure agricultural paradigmatic preferences of agricultural faculty members in west of Iran. The statistical population consisted all 288 faculty members of agriculture at public universities (Razi, Bu-Ali Sina, Lorestan, Kordestan and Ilam) in west ...
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The purpose of this descriptive survey study was to measure agricultural paradigmatic preferences of agricultural faculty members in west of Iran. The statistical population consisted all 288 faculty members of agriculture at public universities (Razi, Bu-Ali Sina, Lorestan, Kordestan and Ilam) in west of Iran. According to the Krejcie & Morgan table, a sample size of 165 was selected using stratified random sampling method. Based on findings, the sustainability score mean for faculty members was 71.13. The range of sustainability score means for all the respondents was 40 to 109 and agricultural paradigm type of faculty members was moderate. There was a significant difference between sustainability score means male and female faculty members and of faculty members graduated from within the country universities and those universities abroad. There was a negative and significant relationship between sustainability score with age and job experiences. Analysis of variance showed that there was no significant difference between sustainability score means of faculty members with different agricultural disciplines and significant difference between sustainability score means of faculty members in the different faculties of agriculture. Based on ordinal regression analysis, six variables including gender, employment in agriculture, graduated from universities abroad, age, academic rank and job experiences were influencing on agricultural paradigm evaluation of faculty members.
