ABSTRACT- According to article 44 of the I.R. of Iran Constitution, the Iranian economy consists of three sectors; the state, the cooperative, and the private sectors. The aim of this study was to present a hierarchy of criteria for selecting the best economic sector for agricultural development. Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) was used to calculate the relative importance of either criteria o...

Sustainable agricultural and rural development requires knowledge and information, skills, attitudes and technologies, which run through a network of actors to produce, distribute and use it in a particular place. The model of the Agriculture Knowledge and Information Systems (AKIS) is designed based on this recognition. In Iran, There are about decades of experience in the development of this ...

Transferring expertise from highly qualified experts to non-expert veterinarians and animal breeders is one of the Central Laboratory for Agricultural Expert Systems (CLAES) main objectives. CLAES used the knowledge based system technology to achieve this objective. Five animal knowledge based systems have been developed for diagnosis animal diseases and/or management farm. This paper presents ...

In this paper, we present a technique for helping experts in agricultural monitoring, by mining Satellite Image Time Series over cultivated areas. We use frequent sequential patterns extended to this spatiotemporal context in order to extract sets of connected pixels sharing a similar temporal evolution. We show that a pixel connectivity constraint can be partially pushed to prune the search sp...

Dams were unique in the scope and manner in which they altered the distribution of resources across space and time, among entire communities and ecosystems. They o ered more than just a promise of agricultural development or technical progress. For many postcolonial governments, this ability to rearrange the natural and social environment became a means to demonstrate the strength of the modern...

the main purpose of this research was to analyze socio-cultural obstacles of disseminating ofnanotechnology in iran's agricultural section. one hundred twenty eight out of a total of 190researchers with different levels of expertise in and familiarity with nanotechnology wererandomly selected and questionnaires completed by them. face validity have been done by expert'ssuggestion and correction...

The purpose of study was to identify entrepreneurial personality traits of agricultural students who were studying at Bu-Ali Sina University in 2013 academic year. The study has used a surveying methodology. The study's samples were 150 agricultural students both senior undergraduates and graduates which were selected by a randomized sampling method. Data collection tool was a structured questi...

The production of public goods like amenity value of the landscape, food security, preservation of rural communities and rural lifestyle, by agricultural sector is a subject that has been widely accepted by experts. However, in many policies and political analyses carried out, solely the production of private goods by the agricultural sector is paid attention and the important function of publi...