the population consisted of 2202 students of college of agriculture and natural resources, university of tehranm karaj. 118 of students were selected by stratified random sampling. a questionnaire was developed to gather required data. the content validity of the questionnaire was established by faculty members at department of agricultural extension and education, university of tehran. a pilot...

The forty-year history of agricultural production co-operatives in Iran shows that this type of exploitation system has faced with many challenges during this period. First, despite the help and support by the government, the co-operative sector has not been able to play a major role in the development of the country, and its share has not exceeded 3% of the development program. The Purpose of ...

the major purpose of this study was to identify factors influencing the design of agriculturaladvisory service network in the west azerbaijan province of iran. the population of thisresearch consisted of consultants who provided services to farmers. by using a cochranformula, 306 respondents were selected. the results showed that consultants faced manyobstacles such as lack of necessary facilit...

the purpose of the study was to identify and prioritize the educational needs and support needed by agricultural extension agents in isfahan, islamic republic of iran. the target population for the study consisted of s3 agricultural extension agents in isfahan province. census population were used therefore, sampling procedures were not utilized and genera i izability of the results was lim...

The inappropriate use of pesticides has created side effects such as resistance to pesticides, outbreak of new or secondary pests, environmental toxicity, and human health issues. The aim of this study was to investigate which factors influence green house workers’ attitudes to pesticide use in a case study of 50 greenhouse workers in Hashtgerd city, Iran. Using Bayesian confirmatory factor ana...

the main purpose of this descriptive – survey research was to study extension experts’ attitudes about effective factors in consumption of organic products and in iran. the main population consisted of 1200 extension experts in iran. 289 samples of extension experts’ were selected through randomized sampling to answer the questionnaire. the validity was cheked by a panel of agricultural extensi...

The major purpose of this study was to identify factors influencing the design of agriculturaladvisory service network in the West Azerbaijan province of Iran. The population of thisresearch consisted of consultants who provided services to farmers. By using a Cochranformula, 306 respondents were selected. The results showed that consultants faced manyobstacles such as lack of necessary facilit...

the increase of reproduction performance is one of the critical factors for improving economic achievement and sustaining small and middle scale livestock producing. for this to happen, participatory research and extension programs should be implemented with the help of livestock producers. in the present study, the knowledge and attitudes of target livestock producers of ewe estrous synchroniz...

one of the most important factors in the development of societies, consider to traning. identification and training needs analysis, is a prerequisite for a successful educational system and determine the training needs is considered the first step of educational planning. the purpose of this study was to investigate educational needs of engineers, rice supervisors engineering agricultural engin...