Nowadays the growth of deserts is one the most important problems in Iran. This phenomenon has many reasons such as growth of population, global changes in the climates and many undesirable consequences such as the erosion of agricultural soils and immigration of rural people to urban regions mainly to the capital of Iran, Tehran. Isfahan province is one of the semi-arid and desert regions in t...

The use of new information technology impacts individual work as well as the whole organization. This paper illuminates some preliminary findings from an ongoing study about impacts of the new educational technology in educational organization and individual work. The main question answered in this article is why has information technology being taken into use in certain higher education cases ...

the main purpose of this study was to determine factors influencing the adoption of biological control by paddy farmers. the population consisted of paddy farmers in saricounty. sampling of 260 farmers was selected by using proportional random sampling method. data were collected by means of a questionnaire. validity of questionnaire was confirmed by agricultural jihad experts of saricounty and...

these days, promotion of farmers' technical-scientific abilities in agriculture is one of the main challenges in this sector. agricultural extension as a motivate power source in agricultural development can be more effective in solving these problems via acceptance of responsibility in the educational concepts. but it faces numerous obstacles because of absence of a proper informational s...

diversity, accessibility and reliability are the three main factors governing the adoption of information sources by farmers in rural areas. based on the research hypothesis, the existing knowledge and information delivery system in the agricultural sector, functions far below the ever changing nature and tangible needs of existing farming systems. the main objective in this study is to determi...

the benefits of information and communication technologies (icts) for agricultural extension purposes and activities are obvious. the main objective of this article is to identify encouraging and discouraging factors in application of icts in agricultural extension in isfahan province of iran. this study investigated areas of icts application by extension workers (ews), too. the research design...

the study was conducted to determine the effective factors in nutritional management knowledge and design a proper educational plan for broiler farmers in garmsar township. the used methodological approach was descriptive-correlation. eighty-eight questionnaires were collected and analyzed of 98broiler farmers active in garmsar. the content and face validity of the questionnaires and reliabilit...

reluctance towards implementation of precision agriculture (pa) seems to be based on lackof consideration to education, extension, and research sectors. the objective of this study isto identify educational, extensional, and research requirements in application of the pasystem. the research population included all the experts in qazvin province who are familiarwith pa concepts and pa’s equipmen...