Agricultural education
Ali Akbar damavandi; rahmat Yahya Nejad azizi
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The human resources of each country determine the socio-economic development process of that country. As a result, the optimal use of human resources of any country is considered as a strategicgoal of development. The low productivity of the labor force in the agricultural and natural resources sector ...
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The human resources of each country determine the socio-economic development process of that country. As a result, the optimal use of human resources of any country is considered as a strategicgoal of development. The low productivity of the labor force in the agricultural and natural resources sector is largely due to the lack of a serious and basic plan for inves tment, infras tructure reform and agricultural development in the country. There are other social reasons, which can be mentioned as the person's lack of interes t in the field, the lack of acceptance of rural life, the dis tance between theoretical and practical learning. The exis tence of this conflict in the large number of unemployed graduates of the agriculture and natural resources sector, on the one hand, and the lack of employment of these graduates in the relevant sector, on the other hand, shows the lack of proper planning and unders tanding in the decision-making bodies of different management levels in the country. The purpose of this research, which is a qualitative research of a narrative type with an analytical method and in terms of document data collection, with a non-experimental model, is to es timate the educated manpower of the country's natural resources sector. In order to achieve this goal, firs tly, the admission s tatus of s tudents and graduates in natural resources fields during the years 1389-1400 was inves tigated. Then, to process and analyze the extracted data, ups tream documents and macro s trategies in the natural resources sector of the country were used by the ratio density pattern method in our qualitative view with the opinion of the focal group members, required manpower and university educated people for the academic year 1402-1403. In this research, the required manpower for the academic year 1403-1404 was es timated at different times. The results of the data analysis show that there is a significant difference between the actual needs of the department and the composition of universities. Considering the immense development of agricultural and natural resources higher education centers in accordance with the increase in population in the 80s, the quantitative and qualitative organization of colleges and universities in the current situation can be one of the approaches faced by the Minis try of Science, Research and Technology>
Agricultural education
Shiva Darvishyan; Rezvan Ghanbari Movahed; Saeed Gholamrezai
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The success of a cooperative company in the dynamic sector of agriculture requires hardware resources such as physical and financial capital as well as software capital, i.e. entrepreneurial capital. Therefore, entrepreneurial competencies are necessary for the stability and development of cooperative ...
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The success of a cooperative company in the dynamic sector of agriculture requires hardware resources such as physical and financial capital as well as software capital, i.e. entrepreneurial capital. Therefore, entrepreneurial competencies are necessary for the stability and development of cooperative companies, and in this direction, the measurement of these competencies is important. Thus, the aim of this research is to identify the factors affecting the entrepreneurial competencies of cooperative members of Lorestan animal science graduates. The statistical population studied included 576 graduates of agricultural sciences who were members of the cooperative. The size of the sample was determined by using the table of Karjesi and Morgan, 230 people, and the random sampling method was used to accurately reach the people under study. To collect data, the standard questionnaire of Man (2001) was used. Based on the results, cooperative members are weak in strategic competence, while they have a better situation in terms of relationship competence. Also, the regression analysis results showed that the variables of professional factors, internship experience, and field of study are effective factors in the entrepreneurial competencies of cooperative members. Also, the regression analysis results showed that the variables of membership history in the cooperative, professional factors, internship experience, the field of study, environmental factors, and entrepreneurial experience are the factors affecting the entrepreneurial competencies of the cooperative members. Therefore, cooperative managers can revise cooperative goals and programs to create and strengthen entrepreneurial competencies among members by considering individual, professional, and environmental factors affecting members' competencies.
Agricultural education
HOSSEIN MANAFI RASI; Salman Afshar; Hamidreza Moslehi
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As the main cause of development, provision of specialized workforce is known as a mission of higher education system in any countries. This issue entails scientific planning and is regarded as a base for need assessment in education. To assess the need for manpower, various methods and models have been ...
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As the main cause of development, provision of specialized workforce is known as a mission of higher education system in any countries. This issue entails scientific planning and is regarded as a base for need assessment in education. To assess the need for manpower, various methods and models have been proposed and lots of experiences have been obtained in different countries. Based on scientific experience, realities, available information as well as economic requirements, one of these methods or a combination of them is employed by researchers. Considering the nature of the activities related to livestock farming as well as the available standards by animal husbandry system in the country, the ratio density method was applied to assess the need for educated manpower, in which the ratio of the need for university-educated manpower to the number of livestock, poultry, honey bee colony and feed production capacity was considered as the basis of the estimate. The optimum ratio between the educated workforce and the production capacity was determined based on the relevant experts of the animal husbandry system. The results indicate that the required recruitment for university graduates in different relevant activities for a thirty-year period was estimated to be 44135 in livestock farming, 16336 in poultry farming, 8000 in honey bee keeping and 985 in feed production. In addition, it appeared that some 2315 graduates in animal science are required, annually, including 3.5% PhD, 26.5% in the master's, 70% in the bachelor's and associate’s levels.
Agricultural education
Hafiza Jafari
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The main purpose of this study was to investigate the effective factors on improving quality of education in College of Agriculture,, University of Herat, Afghanistan. Data were gathered through a questionnaire technique during 2021. This research was an applied which was done by a descriptive-correlation ...
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The main purpose of this study was to investigate the effective factors on improving quality of education in College of Agriculture,, University of Herat, Afghanistan. Data were gathered through a questionnaire technique during 2021. This research was an applied which was done by a descriptive-correlation method. The study population included 850 students of Herat Agriculture College, 230 samples were selected by a simple randomized sampling method and Cocheran's Formula. Validity of items in the questionnaire (or face validity) was confirmed by the experts. To evaluate the reliability of the research instrument ordinal theta (0.83-0.93) and CR (0.84-0.94) was calculated during a pre-test process by using PLS. The questions type was ordinal and based on 5-points Likert's scale. Data analysis was done by using statistics i.e. means, standard deviations, and variation coefficients, as well as structural equation model. The results showed that the status of quality of education was acceptable at agricultural faculty of Herat University based on 21 standards by calculating an average of 3.29. The results confirmatory factor analysis showed that the content of the curriculum with a coefficient of (0.47), the position of professors with a beta coefficient of (0.21), and teaching methods with a beta coefficient of (13) had the greatest impact on improving the quality of education. Results revealed that the variables student status, teacher status, equipment status, teaching method, satisfaction, and educational content could explain 47 percent of dependent variable of education quality.
Agricultural education
orkideh heidarnejad; seyed soheil ghaemmaghami
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The unemployment of a large number of agricultural graduates, including veterinary, has attracted the attention of various scientific and executive departments. Increasing production and productivity in modern husbandry by performing veterinary operations, developing new aspects of the veterinary field ...
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The unemployment of a large number of agricultural graduates, including veterinary, has attracted the attention of various scientific and executive departments. Increasing production and productivity in modern husbandry by performing veterinary operations, developing new aspects of the veterinary field are among the necessary reasons for estimating and managing the human resources of the veterinary field.This research, with a qualitative view of a narrative type with an analytical method and in terms of collecting documentary data, with a non-experimental model, estimated the need for human resources of higher education in the field of veterinary, and a focus group was used to ensure the validity and reliability of the findings. In order to determine the suitable indicators of the research, the ratio density pattern was used in our qualitative view.By examining the status of student registration in various levels of veterinary medicine in all universities of the country during the past two decades, the current state of veterinary graduates and workers in the public and private sector and calculating the demand for educated human resources in the sector by asking employers and upstream documents until 1404 The capacity of accepting students for different levels of veterinary (1020 associate degree, 308 bachelor, 154 master,615 general doctorate, 306 specialized doctorate) has been reached. in addition to predicting the required number of educated people in different levels of veterinary medicine, suggestions have been made regarding the addition and deletion of some titles in the courses of different levels of veterinary..
Agricultural education
Zahra Athari
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Achieving sustainable development requires the training of specialized and competent human resources through educational centers and institutions. While, one of the concerns of higher agricultural education, especially in recent years, is the issue of student retention. The purpose of this causal-relational ...
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Achieving sustainable development requires the training of specialized and competent human resources through educational centers and institutions. While, one of the concerns of higher agricultural education, especially in recent years, is the issue of student retention. The purpose of this causal-relational research was to determine the factors influencing the retention of agricultural students. The statistical population was the undergraduate students of in College of Agriculture and Natural Resources at Razi University in the academic year 2021-2022 (N=901), which 270 were selected based on Bartlett's table with a stratified random sampling method. The data collection tool was a researcher-made questionnaire, which was used for its reliability and validity through ordinal coefficient theta (Ө= 0.87) and an expert panel. Exploratory factor analysis showed that factors related to professors, support-management factor, environmental and educational facilities and personal factor were extracted as effective factors on student retention. These factors explain about 73% of the variance related to the retention of agricultural students. The results of the Mann-Whitney and Kruskal-Wallis tests did not show significant difference between the viewpoints of male and female students and different fields and educational degrees of students. While, there was a significant difference between the viewpoints of rural and urban students regarding the factors affecting the retention of students. Based on the findings, Creating motivation and interest in students by professors, supporting the government in creating jobs for agricultural graduates, providing greenhouses and agricultural land to carry out practical activities in agricultural colleges can create situation for retention of students.
Agricultural education
fateme karimi etemad; jafar yaghobi; abdolhamid papzan
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The higher education system, as the most obvious manifestation of human resource investment, plays a key role in training and providing effective human resources. So The development of higher education is very important as one of the infrastructures of the development of any country. In this regard, ...
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The higher education system, as the most obvious manifestation of human resource investment, plays a key role in training and providing effective human resources. So The development of higher education is very important as one of the infrastructures of the development of any country. In this regard, the development of agricultural higher education can play an important role in the growth of agriculture and guarantee the achievement of comprehensive and sustainable development of agriculture. The main purpose of this research was to identify the most important and the pillars ways to improve agricultural higher education. Due to the exploratory approach, qualitative approach was used to identify the solutions. The statistical population of the research was university experts, graduates, agricultural entrepreneurs and managers of agricultural jihad, and 32 experts were interviewed using purposeful sampling until reaching the threshold of usefulness. Agriculture has been used in Zanjan province. By analyzing the text of the interviews, 200 conceptual propositions related to the purpose of the research were extracted during open coding.These concepts were classified in the form of 52 sub-categories during axial coding and then in 6 general categories during selective coding. According to this classification, the most important aspects of improving the agricultural higher education system include educational-research, infrastructure, structural (infrastructure), individual-skill (human resources), administrative-management (organizational) and economic aspects.
Mahtab Pouratashi
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One of the most important concerns of agricultural students is their employment. This paperaims to study agricultural students' employability and focused on three questions: students'competency for employment, university strengths and promoting methods. Participants were 21Ph. D. students in agriculture ...
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One of the most important concerns of agricultural students is their employment. This paperaims to study agricultural students' employability and focused on three questions: students'competency for employment, university strengths and promoting methods. Participants were 21Ph. D. students in agriculture and Interview used for data collection. The findings showed thatthe most important skill was CV writing and team working, respectively. University strengthsincluded three categories: human resources, facilities, and support. In addition, the methods forpromoting employability skills of agricultural students were categorized in three main groups:education, interactions, and services. In addition, the subcategories included: content of thecourse, the quality of education, knowledge and learning, personal communication,organizational communication, counseling, cultural, and support. Based on the findings,organizing workshops and proper implementing of apprenticeship were recommended.
Zeinab Moazen; Hamid Movahed Mohammadi; Ahmad Rezvanfar; Seyyed Yousef Hedjazi
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The aim of this research was to analyze the components agricultural extension and education major according to interdisciplinary curriculum elements. The statistical population of the study included 302 students (1393-1396 for Master and 1391-391 for PhD) at universities of Tehran, Shiraz, Ramin, Kermanshah, ...
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The aim of this research was to analyze the components agricultural extension and education major according to interdisciplinary curriculum elements. The statistical population of the study included 302 students (1393-1396 for Master and 1391-391 for PhD) at universities of Tehran, Shiraz, Ramin, Kermanshah, and Zanjan. Using Krejcie and Morgan tables, a sample of 170 students was selected by stratified sampling method. The research instrument was a questionnaire. Its validity was confirmed by the faculty members and PhD students and graduates of Agricultural Extension and Education. Cronbach's alpha coefficient used to determine the reliability. Data were analyzed using SPSS software. The results of factor analysis showed that aim element had three component including acquiring cognitive skills, problem solving skills, and acquiring the skills of the real world of engineering. Content element had four components including: content cohesion, comprehensiveness of the content, the proper utilization of the content of the related disciplines, and the provision of complementary and relevant courses in terms of study. The element of teaching and learning strategies had three components including: problem-based teaching methods, the interaction of faculty members, and the use of cooperation of different disciplines in the teaching process. The element of learning experiences and activities had three components including: matching the experiences with the needs of the field and the interests of the students, setting out the activities and experiences of learning based on the internal and external workgroup, and designing challenging experiences and learning activities. T
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The current study is a qualitative research in which a grounded theory has been used. To collect data an interview tool through in-depth interviews was used. A theoretical purposeful sampling method was used to select samples during the snowball procedures. Data were theoretically saturated by interviewing ...
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The current study is a qualitative research in which a grounded theory has been used. To collect data an interview tool through in-depth interviews was used. A theoretical purposeful sampling method was used to select samples during the snowball procedures. Data were theoretically saturated by interviewing with 21 agricultural graduates and 9 employers and agricultural faculty members. For selecting the graduates to participate in interviewing the most important criteria were their willingness to cooperate, having good experience and adequate information about the research objectives, two years unemployment status after the graduation as well as their attempt to find a job. Data analyzing was proceed during open coding, axial coding and selective coding processes, then to identify themes a Strauss and Corbin (1998) paradigm was used by establishing relationships between themes and casual conditions, contextual conditions, intervention/ intermediate conditions, strategies and consequences. Results showed that the most important barriers and problems faced to the agricultural graduates were: low quality and inappropriate syllabus in universities, lack of university teachers' skills, unawareness to entrepreneurship skills during education, lack of advisory services and supports for the graduates, no enough infrastructures, individual problems like low self-confidence, interest to work, and insufficient skills among the agricultural students and graduates, not enough financial and banking facilities, not strong linkage and coordination between organizations related to agriculture, no appropriate administrative regulations and laws, socio- cultural problems, structural problems in the country's agricultural economy.
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The purpuse of this study was to identifying and ranking factors explaning the quality of teachingfrom the perspective of university teachers Khouzestan ramin Agriculture and natural Resources.The subjects of the study were all 87 university teachers of Khuzestan ramin Agriculture and natural Resources.The ...
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The purpuse of this study was to identifying and ranking factors explaning the quality of teachingfrom the perspective of university teachers Khouzestan ramin Agriculture and natural Resources.The subjects of the study were all 87 university teachers of Khuzestan ramin Agriculture and natural Resources.The tools of collecting data was a questionair written by the researcher.The validity of the question was verified by education and extension university teachers,In order to measure the reliability of the questionare, Theta reliability coefficients was used,showing a favorable reliability of 0/82. The data were processed by spss 17. The result of regression showed that among 6 factors explaining the quality of teaching in teacher’s view3 components: personal and communication skills, teaching skills, planning skills were the main components determining the quality of teaching. The espearman correlation coefficient shows a positive and significant relationship between teaching experience, research experience and the quality of instruction. In this study some strategies to improve teaching quality were suggested.
