مجله پژوهش های ترویج و آموزش کشاورزی
سال یازدهم شماره 4 (پیاپی 44، زمستان 1397)

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between self-efficacy, course content, flexibility, teacher-student relationships and academic burnout among agricultural students. Sample was 120 students that selected among 1072 undergraduate students at Agriculture and Natural Resources Campus, Razi University by random sampling technique and Kerjcie and Morgan table. The result showed that three class of academic burnout score are: Low (40.93); moderate (49.61) and severe (61.11). In addition, based on, Pearson's correlation coefficient, self-efficacy and quality of learning experiences were negatively correlated with students' academic burnout(p=0.01). Moreover, there is negative and significant relationship between academic burnout and content, flexibility, professor-student relationship (p=0.01). The findings of this study can help to agricultural higher education planners, considering the students' academicburnout and designing plans in order to reduce this negative factor in effective learning and prepare students to increase their self- efficacy.

The purpose of this research was to investigate the status of the educational system of agricultural schools in Khuzestan province. The research method was survey. In this research, teachers and students of agricultural schools in Khouzestan province comprised 53 and 801 members of the study population. The sample size was 260 students. All teachers were studied. In order to evaluate the validity of the research tool, a panel of experts and reliability of the Cronbach Alpha coefficient were used. According to students' disappointment and worries about the future, the weakness of the students in the lessons and the lack of attention to the quality of education was one of the most important barriers to the educational system in the agricultural schools of Khuzestan.According to the teachers' view, the low level of average years prior to entering the field, disappointment and concern about the future of the job and the lack of educational per capita were the most important obstacles in the educational system of agricultural schools in Khuzestan.Based on the results of factor analysis, a review of the educational structure of the vocational schools, the promotion of equipment and inter-sectoral collaboration, analysis of textbooks with the view of the students and entrepreneurship development, teacher satisfaction and improvement of educational evaluation and increasing the authorities' authority and improving the internship were 5 factors, which totaled 42.542% of variable variations explained the strategies for improving the educational system of agricultural schools.

The purpose of this study was to assessing of agricultural consulting services companies educators' information seeking behavior and in Ilam province and factors affecting it. The research method was correlation and used survey method. The statistical population consisted of agricultural educators (N =950). By using Krejcie and Morgan's (1970) Tale, 175 agricultural educators were selected as sample (n =175). Samples were selected through proportional stratified sampling method. A questionnaire used to collect the data. Content validity of the questionnaire was confirmed based on opinions of some of agricultural extension and education experts. Cronbach's alpha coefficient for different parts of the questionnaire was higher than 0.79 The research’s result showed that the average level of information seeking behavior (Average 2.81) was weak. The findings of regressions revealed that the amount of amount of time the work with computer, amount of time the work with internet Proficiency in English and GPA degree varieties explained 29 percent of the variation in information seeking behavior.

The purpose of this study was to explain the role of communication channels on farmers' adaptation intention towards drought using planning behavior theory. The research instrument was a researcher-made questionnaire which its validity and reliability were confirmed by a group of subject specialists and doing a pre-study and calculating the Cronbach's alpha coefficient, respectively. The population of this study consisted of farmers in the central part of Marvdasht township (N=8602), of which 367 individuals were estimated using Krejcie and Morgan tables and using random sampling method Simple were selected. The results indicated that there is a meaningful difference in adaptation’s behavioral intention towards drought based on the communication channels they have been used. According to the findings, the highest average of behavioral intention was related to the television and agricultural experts at the same time. Also, the results showed that the least average behavioral intention was related to friends and relatives. This finding also confirmed by the Bonferoni sequence test. Finally, the effect of each variable of the theory of planned behavior on the behavioral intention of the respondents based on each communication channels determined. The results indicated that the subjective norm influences on respondent's behavioral intention in all communication channels. According to the findings, some suggestions were made for the proper decision making of using communication channels in order to prepare for climate change.

The purpose of this paper was to explore the main barriers and difficulties of developing Canola plantation in the Orzuiyeh County. This is an applied research with a survey that was planned to explore issues associated with Canola production adoption. The statistical population of the study was farmers in the central district of the Orzuiyeh County. In order to determine the sample size of the study, the Bartlett and colleagues sample size table with 5% error rate was used. Accordingly, 122 farmers were selected. The data were acquired by questionnaire. A panel of experts reviewed and confirmed the face validity of the instrument. The reliability of the questionnaire was also confirmed by conducting and calculating the KMO coefficient. The KMO coefficient value is greater than 0.54 and the Bartlett test value is statistically reliable. The research findings showed that the barriers to develop Canola plantation can be categorized into the following major factors: financial, production process, intrapersonal, and information- communication. In addition, based on the rankings, financial barriers with a mean of 3.80 and a standard deviation of 0.359 are in the first place. Furthermore, the cluster analysis tool which aims at sorting different objects into groups in a way that the degree of association between two objects is maximal if they belong to the same group and minimal otherwise. The results of cluster analysis indicated that the farmers of the studied area can be categories in three groups: Pragmatic, communicative, technologically oriented.

This research was carried out with the aim of analyzing the institutional and legal components of the system for providing organic standardization services. This study was descriptive-correlation. The statistical population of the research were 250 knowledgeable experts in relation to the production and supply of organic products (organizations such as Agricultural Jihad, Agricultural Engineering Organization, National Iranian Standards Organization and Organic Association of Iran) out of which a sample size of 154 was selected in accordance with Glenn De Esmerald's (2013) sampling table. Sampling technique adopted in this study was random sampling technique. Validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by some experts of organic production and faculty members of Tehran University. The reliability of the main scale of study was assessed by using Cronbach's alpha coefficient . The factor analysis of the institutional-legal component of the organic products standardization system indicated that government's monitoring of the organic production chain was the most effective indicator and the standard of storage and storage of organic products was the most effective indicator of the legal component of the product standardization system.