Investigating of Farmers knowledge Level About Agricultural Water Management Technologies in Falavarjan County

This main purpose of this research was to investigating of farmers '' knowledge level about agricultural water management technologies in Falavarjan country. Statistical population of this study was consisted of 20156 farmers; out of which 205 people were selected as sample using multi-stage sampling technique. This research was a sort of survey studies and a questionnaire was used for collection of data and information. Questionnaire''s reliability was confirmed through computing cornbanch''s Alpha coefficient which was more than 0. 70. Face validity of questionnaire was confirmed by a panel of expert judgment. Correlation analysis findings revealed that there were significant relationships and positive among farmers'' knowledge of agricultural water management technologies and other variables such as «used of information resources»، «contacts of extension agents»، «attitude of impacted of irrigation systems» and «degree of education»، «application of agricultural water management technologies» and negative among «age» and «water scarcity». Regression analysis findings revealed that there were relationships both farmers'' knowledge of agricultural water management technologies and «used of information resources»، «attitude of impacted of irrigation systems»، «water scarcity»، «degree of education» and «contacts of extension agents». Also factor analysis results of farmers'' knowledge of agricultural water management technologies revealed seven factors totally they explained 56. 19 percent of total variance.