The Effect of Farmer Field School Approach on Farmer's Attitude toward Environmental Stance Of Intergrated pest Management

AbstractThe use of integrated pest management as one of the conservation technologies in agriculture is needed. The purpose of this study is investigating and assessing the effect of Godin Kongharder Farmer's participation on farmer's attitudes toward Integrated Pest Management in terms of Environmentalistic and pest control. The research in terms of its nature domain is quantitative research and in terms of its goal is an applied research, In terms of controlling variables, is causal-correlation. The studied statistical population consist of 117 farmer from the Goodin town in Kangavar in 1394 and 1395, who have participated in Farmer Field School integrated pest management extension education in 2016 . research toof to collecting data was a structured questionnaire which its validity, according to agricultural extension experts and its reliability using the ordinal theta coefficient was set 0.87. The results of ordinal regression analysis indicated that, farmer field school approach has been effective on the farmer attitude toward ability of the integrated pest management to control pests and diseases, reduce production costs and reduce chemical inputs, also toward environmentalism of integrated pest management to protect the safety of products and protect soil quality and farmers field school approach have been able to explain between 13 and 46 percent of the dependent variable variations (farmer's attitudes toward IPM).