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
Karwan Shanazi; Shahoo Dashti
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Water governance is known as an effective solution to limitation of agricultural water resources and its optimal management. Therefore, it is very important to identify and evaluate the indicators as well as the priority mechanisms for its realization.with this knowledge, this research has evaluated ...
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Water governance is known as an effective solution to limitation of agricultural water resources and its optimal management. Therefore, it is very important to identify and evaluate the indicators as well as the priority mechanisms for its realization.with this knowledge, this research has evaluated the feasibility of good governance indicators of agricultural water resources in the water-user organizations of Kamyaran county.This research is a type of descriptive-analytical research that was conducted by survey method. In addition to in-depth library studies, the required data was collected using the field method and questionnaire tool in 2021.The statistical population included 220 water users in eight villages who were selected by census. The validity of questionnire was examined by subject experts in university and its reliability calculation was confirmed by Ordinal theta coefficient (θ=0.72-0.85). The findings revealed the state of good governance of the organizations at a weak (47.72%) and moderate (37.27%) respectively. The comparison of the averages showed that its dimensions of financial reliability and independence, participation, justice and transparency was higher than the average of the society,but it was lower in other dimensions. Considering the significant level of farmers' governance of water resources in terms of components of financial reliability, participation, justice, it is acceptable,but in terms of adequacy and reliability, efficiency and effectiveness, and accountability, it is reported to be weak.The correlation coefficient confirm significant relationship between the variables of the number of participants in public meetings,and the main job history with the variable of the good governance level of organizations.
Agricultural education
yaser mohammadi; fereshteh avatefi akmal
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The Covid-19 disease has led to many problems and adversities around the world. The agricultural extension and education has also faced problems to provide its services according to its mission of transferring knowledge to farmers during Covid-19 pandemic. Thus, the pathology of agricultural extension ...
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The Covid-19 disease has led to many problems and adversities around the world. The agricultural extension and education has also faced problems to provide its services according to its mission of transferring knowledge to farmers during Covid-19 pandemic. Thus, the pathology of agricultural extension programs during and beyond Covid-19 and its impact on agricultural development was the aim of current research. The research is applied in terms of purpose and follows the qualitative paradigm. The qualitative method used is a hybrid of grounded theory and the Fuzzy-Delphi technique. The s tatis tical population of the research was the agricultural extension and education and rural development experts of the agricultural jihad of Hamadan province, as well as the faculty members of extension and rural development. The sampling method in this research was purposive based on theoretical saturation. The main data collection tool was semi-s tructured interviews. The collected data were firs t coded and then validated through the Fuzzy-Delphi technique. The results of the research showed that the harms of agricultural extension programs during and beyond Covid-19 were: Problems in providing face-toface extension services, lack of readiness of agricultural extension to adopt virtual education, low effectiveness of virtual education in providing extension content, reducing the profitability of the agricultural sector, endangering non-agricultural jobs and reducing face-to-face communication. On the other hand, the Covid-19 disease created opportunities related to development of virtual education sys tems during Covid-19 and changing the pattern of agricultural crops. Based on the results of the research, in order to the resilience of the agricultural extension and education sys tem in the face of possible future events such as Covid-19, the platform of virtual education should be s trengthened for the continuous and effective implementation of extension programs.
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This two-phase research was done to identify and prioritize mechanisms of academic entrepreneurship in agricultural higher education. According to the research purpose, criteria to select key expert participants were identified as: actual experience in academic entrepreneurship, managerial experience ...
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This two-phase research was done to identify and prioritize mechanisms of academic entrepreneurship in agricultural higher education. According to the research purpose, criteria to select key expert participants were identified as: actual experience in academic entrepreneurship, managerial experience in policy making and institutional supporting for academic entrepreneurship, and professional experience as lecturer or researcher in academic entrepreneurship. A total of 24 experts participated in this Delphi technique. By a three-round Delphi study, the first phase was conducted in order to identify alternative mechanisms and criteria of academic entrepreneurship in higher agricultural education. As findings of the first phase, 5 alternatives and 7 criterion were extracted. Using Analytical Hierarchical Process (AHP), extracted alternative mechanisms and criteria of academic entrepreneurship were prioritized in the second phase. Required data was collected through pair-wise comparison and Expert Choice software used to analysis data. Finally, five methods of academic entrepreneurship ranked based on the seven criterion as: set up spin-off and start-up firms by agricultural faculty members for commercialization of research and supplying scientific services has the highest rank (relative weight of 0.242). Then set up a university academic cooperative, with relative weight of 0.242, licensing or selling patents, with relative weight of 0.213, contract research, with relative weight 0.182 and providing education and consulting services out of university, with relative weight of 0.099 got the next rank. Each mechanism of academic entrepreneurship has a different impact and specific implication.
