Taher Azizi-Khalkheili
Abstract
In order to rural development and farmers’ wellbeing, Jihad Agricultural Centers play an important role in educating and increasing farmers’ knowledge and information. This study was conducted to investigate farmers’ motivation for attending in educational programs of Jihad Agricultural ...
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In order to rural development and farmers’ wellbeing, Jihad Agricultural Centers play an important role in educating and increasing farmers’ knowledge and information. This study was conducted to investigate farmers’ motivation for attending in educational programs of Jihad Agricultural Centers. Farmers of Mazandaran province included research population (N= 336532), using Kerejcie & Morgan Sampling Table 384 person were determined as sample size and to increase confidence they were raised to 414 farmers that were selected by multistage random sampling. This study is a semi-experimental research and the survey technique was used to gather data. Research instrument was a questionnaire whose validity was confirmed with experts and university professors. The Ordinal Theta coefficients (θ = 0.756 - 0.898) revealed the suitable reliability of measuring instrument. Investigation of farmers’ motivation in four components showed that idealistic and physiological motivations had a higher average than the pleasure and recognition motivations. Using cluster analysis farmers divided to 3 homogeneous groups and analysis of variance test showed these groups significantly differ in variables that used for clustering. Ordinal regression in these clusters revealed that recognizing the problems of attendance, attitude toward personnel of Jihad Agricultural Centers, , visiting the Jihad Agricultural Centers, taking responsibility in the village, and the number of household members had main role in predicting farmers’ motivation, also 15.2 to 83.5 percent of variation in dependent variable were predicted by these variables.
