Agricultural education
Shapour Zarifian; Hossein Kohestani; Shamsi Beheshti; Elham Shojaedin
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Raber township in Kerman province with 4500 hectares of walnut cultivation is one of the most important hubs of walnut production in the country. Holding extensional training classes based on educational needs can play an effective role in improving the knowledge and skills of walnut farmers for using ...
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Raber township in Kerman province with 4500 hectares of walnut cultivation is one of the most important hubs of walnut production in the country. Holding extensional training classes based on educational needs can play an effective role in improving the knowledge and skills of walnut farmers for using new methods to increase production and income. The main purpose of the research was to determine the educational needs of walnut farmers in Raber township. The statistical population included walnut farmers (N=1200) and experts of agricultural Jihad management of Raber township(N=15). Due to the limited community of experts, a census was conducted and multi-stage sampling with proportional assignment was used for farmers. This descriptive research was conducted by survey method and the data collection tool was a questionnaire. The validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by the opinion of the professors of Tabriz University and the experts of the agricultural jihad who were involved in walnut farming. The reliability of the research questionnaire was acceptable by calculating Cronbach's alpha coefficient (between 0.72 and 0.96). The educational needs were estimated based on the viewpoint of farmers and experts according to Borich and Quadrant models. The findings of the research using the quadrant model showed that 10 educational needs were placed in the first quadrant (high importance, low skill), which were: building a garden with the right method and system, using suitable modified varieties of walnut, getting to know walnut grafting methods. buying walnut seedlings from a suitable and reliable place, taking care of walnuts against sunburn, getting to know the right ways to sell the product, planting healthy seedlings, proper plowing and its effect on increasing production, observing the proper depth and diameter of the planting hole for walnut seedlings, Observing the proper depth and diameter of the hole for planting walnut seedlings and observing the proper distance for planting walnut seedlings.
mohammad ghorbani; hosein Rohani; mohammad reza kohansal
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Researchers consider social capital as an important component of economic development and a key factor in sustainable rural development, and consider education as a factor in creating and strengthening it too. The aim of this study was to analyze the effect of extension education on farmers' social capital ...
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Researchers consider social capital as an important component of economic development and a key factor in sustainable rural development, and consider education as a factor in creating and strengthening it too. The aim of this study was to analyze the effect of extension education on farmers' social capital in Khorasan Razavi using seemingly unrelated regression equations. The research tool was a questionnaire that the calculated coefficients indicate its high reliability. The statistical population of this study includes all farmers in the province. Due to the size and dispersion of villages, we used two-stage cluster sampling and the required sample size estimated at 384 people. The results showed that the four components of social capital have different conditions and also the general variable of social capital with an average of 0.61 is slightly higher than the average and therefore does not have favorable conditions. Quchan has the first rank and Khoshab has the second rank. Statistical analysis of the data showed that among the 11 independent variables, education variables, cooperative member and ownership status did not have a significant effect on social capital, but other independent variables showed a significant positive or negative effect on social capital. The variable of participation in the training course (except for the component of social cohesion) had a positive and significant effect on other components and also on the variable of social capital, which indicates the importance and key role of extension training in improving the social capital of farmers.
Taher Azizi-Khalkheili; Mehdi Haddadinejad; Meysam Menatizadeh
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This research was conducted to identify the educational and extensional needs of strawberry growers in Mazandaran province. The statistical population consisted of strawberry growers in five counties of Mazandaran province (with more than 70% of the province's production, N = 3000), 240 of them were ...
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This research was conducted to identify the educational and extensional needs of strawberry growers in Mazandaran province. The statistical population consisted of strawberry growers in five counties of Mazandaran province (with more than 70% of the province's production, N = 3000), 240 of them were selected by Cochran's formula and multi stage random sampling technique. Data was collected through a questionnaire that its validity was confirmed by faculty members of agricultural extension & education and horticulture departments in Sari Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources University and Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources University of Khuzestan, also calculating Ordinal Theta revealed the suitable reliability of measuring instrument (range 0.78 to 0.86). Mean, standard deviation and spearman correlation, were used for data analysis and prioritization of needs as well as inferential statistics: mean rank comparison and ordinal regression. The results of study showed that three educational needs: stress tolerance, fruit quantity and fruit quality ranked first to third in importance. In tolerance to stress dimension, the resistance of the plant to winter cold and plant resistance to disease and pests were in the first and second priorities. In total, from 55 studied needs, fruit firmness in transfer was the most significant item. Based on Spearman’ correlation test, the variables of agricultural experience, education, income and daily work hours had significant relationship with the educational & extensional needs. According to ordinal regression results and Nagelkerke coefficient, these four variables can predict 59.7% of the changes in the educational and extensional needs of strawberries growers.
mosa azami; Mehrdad Pouya
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Although publications of water governance reports have rapidly been increasing recently, no researches utilized knowledge and word co-occurrence mapping as a novel methodology. The Knowledge map reveals major scientific nodes and trends of the study area with its strengths and weaknesses; so it was conducted ...
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Although publications of water governance reports have rapidly been increasing recently, no researches utilized knowledge and word co-occurrence mapping as a novel methodology. The Knowledge map reveals major scientific nodes and trends of the study area with its strengths and weaknesses; so it was conducted through focusing on the topic of water governance as a new area of knowledge. After extracting and processing documents, retrieved by searching water AND governance, and indexed in the Scopus site- as the most comprehensive indexing site- the data were analyzed using the VOSwiever-1.6.9 software including network, overlay and density visualizations. Out of over 7000 documents and 14000 authors who published on the subject matter up to 2019, the US, the Netherlands and Australia were found to have published the highest number of the documents. Meanwhile, China and India ranked to the end of the ten-nation list. Not only Claudia Pahl-Wostl and Joyeeta Gupta received the most citations; but also their clusters showed to have the highest density scores as well. The word co-occurrence network revealed the following five research clusters: collective action, adaptation, groundwater, experience; capacity, agriculture, climate, drought, and resilience; evidence, participation, integrated management, technology, and implementation; human rights, energy, sanitation, solutions, and environment; and conflicts, collaboration, evaluation, politics, and power. Knowledge mapping is recommended for offering a holistic insight regarding the subject matter under study to future agricultural extension education researchers.
leila zolikhaei sayyar; karim naderi mahdeei; reza movahedi
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The main aim of this correlation-casual study was to analysis the effects of extension education factors on agricultural water sustainable management (AWSM) in Hamedan province. The study was an applied research in terms of goal and it has used a surveying method in terms of data gathering. The study's ...
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The main aim of this correlation-casual study was to analysis the effects of extension education factors on agricultural water sustainable management (AWSM) in Hamedan province. The study was an applied research in terms of goal and it has used a surveying method in terms of data gathering. The study's population were all agricultural water experts, faculty members, as well as researchers enrolled in Agricultural Research Center of Hamedan province (N=130). A researcher made questionnaire was used for collecting data. In this phase, 97 samples were selected according to Morgan's table in order to complete the data. In description part for ranking the extension education factors both TOPSIS and SAW were used as well as in analytical part A structural equation modeling (SEM) methodology by PLS software was used to determine the proportion of the independent variables (extension education factors, attitude) in predicting the dependent variable (AWSM). The results showed that 19 percent of the dependent variable (AWSM) variance could be determined by the variables extension education factors and attitude. Among the extension education factors, the mass media factor was shown as the highest and the most important with a 0.255 coefficient.
