analysis of effect of farmer field school approach on agricultural knowledge and information management in sharifabad regional, alborz county, iran

elements of agricultural knowledge and information management(research, extension, farmers, ngo and …) to near together in appropriate process were used in farmer field school approach. the purpose of this study was to determine the effect of farmer field school (ffs) approach on agricultural knowledge and information management. the research population consisted of 420 farmers who participated in ffs approach in sharifabad regional selected randomly (200). the methodological approach of this study was descriptive-correlative. validity of the instrument was established by a panel of experts consisting of senior faculty members and research committee advisors. reliability analysis was conducted by using cronbach alpha formula and result was 81. the results showed that 18.8, 16.2 and 65 percent of farmers expressed that their agricultural knowledge and information management were weak, moderate and good respectively. also the results of the multiple regression analysis (stepwise method) revealed that the management, social, education- extension and economic factors explained a variation of 77.9 percent of the agricultural knowledge and information management by farmers.