in spite of 60 years of past experience, agricultural extension in iran still faces problems, obstacles and limitations. researchers believe that during these years, the service available to farmers has been neither successful nor satisfactory. with respect to the presently available problems and limitations, a thorough identification and analysis of these issues is necessary as well as inevita...

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...

this paper describes the extension requirements in use of drip irrigation systems in tehran province. the study was functional (practical) in terms of goal, non-experimental in terms of control on variables, and causality-relational in terms of data collection. data collection method was based on the documentary-library and field study (questionnaire) and statistical population included 547 sam...

Increasing demands for accountability in educational programming have resulted in increasing calls for program evaluation in educational organizations. Many organizations include conducting program evaluations as part of the job responsibilities of program staff. Cooperative Extension is a complex organization offering non-formal educational programs through land grant universities. Many Extens...

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...