Agricultural education
Hadi Moumenihelali; Mehrdad Amouoghli Tabari; Vahid Khosravi; Hoda Abadian; Alireza Nabipour
Abstract
The integrated pest management strategy, as an important environmentally friendly policy, has received special attention in agricultural extension training courses in recent years. Accordingly, the purpose of this research was to evaluate the relationship between rice farmers' reaction towards extension ...
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The integrated pest management strategy, as an important environmentally friendly policy, has received special attention in agricultural extension training courses in recent years. Accordingly, the purpose of this research was to evaluate the relationship between rice farmers' reaction towards extension training courses, integrated pest management knowledge, and practical use of the learned knowledge of rice farmers participating in extension training courses on rice integrated pest management in Mazandaran province. The study is descriptive and ex-post facto, conducted using a survey method in 2023. The targeted population of this study consisted of 250 rice farmers who were participating in the extension training courses. Using Krejcie and Morgan table and simple random sampling method, 146 people participated in this study. A questionnaire with a five point Likert scale was used to collect data. The content validity of the research instrument was confirmed by a panel of experts from the Rice Research Institute of Iran, and the agricultural jihad organization of Mazandaran province. The reliability of the research instrument was confirmed using the ordinal theta coefficient with a rate of 0.85 to 0.95 for the research variables. Data analysis was done using SPSS27 and Smart PLS software. The results showed the reaction of the rice farmers was not negative towards the quality of the held training courses. Additionally, the level of their knowledge of integrated pest management was evaluated as average. Most of the farmers acknowledged that they applied their learned knowledge at an average level in practice. The results of the path analysis showed that the learned knowledge of integrated pest management had the most direct effect on the practical use of rice farmers. Also, rice farmers' reaction towards extension training courses, in addition to directly affecting the practical use of rice farmers, indirectly affected it through the learned knowledge.
Agricultural education
Zahra Eskandari; Moslem Savari; Masoud Yazdanpaah
Abstract
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.
