جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « جوانان روستایی » در نشریات گروه « اقتصاد کشاورزی »

Nowadays, rural youth are fewer tendencies to settle in rural areas and engage in agricultural activities, while the future of agricultural development in any country depends on rural youth. Considering the importance of the employment of rural youth in agriculture, this qualitative research was conducted with the aim of Analysis of reasons for the decrease tendency of rural youth to agricultural occupation. The population of the study included the rural youth in Cheleh District of Gilan-e-Gharb Township. The main data collection tool was in-depth interviews with rural youth who were studied through purposive sampling and snowball method. Analysis of data collected by content analysis method using MAX-QDA12 software led to the identification of 32 concepts related to the most important reasons for the decrease tendency of rural youth to agricultural occupation, which in the form of 5 main categories including 1) high risk for agricultural occupation, 2) low income and difficulty of agricultural profession, 3) negative attitude towards the village, 4) lack of health and welfare facilities in the village and 5) lack of enough credit in the agricultural sector. The findings of this study indicate the fact that rural youth prefer non-agricultural occupations to agriculture, which may be due to the high profitability and convenience of those occupations. Therefore, the need seems to help with coherent and appropriate planning to increase utility in rural areas, which can create a sense of belonging, participation, capital, entrepreneurship development, vitality to the village and the rural environment.

Rural youth are important sources of rural and agriculture development, and if they remain in their rural area, they can help reduce poverty in that area. One of the factors affecting the youth's survival in the village is the achievement of social wellbeing. In most studies, only the objective dimension of wellbeing has been addressed and the mental dimension of wellbeing has been neglected, while the subjective interpretation of youth from the environment and quality of life in the village which affects their decision on remaining in the village. Therefore, the aim of this research is to evaluate the mental well-being of rural youth and its effect on remain in rural. The statistical population of the study consisted of rural youths in Khoramabad Township (N= 1058). Research samples were selected using multi-stage cluster sampling method with using the Krejcie & Morgan table (n= 281). The results showed that the level of mental well-being of the majority of the rural youth was low and girls had a lower mean in terms of self-esteem, emotional intelligence and social intelligence. In addition, the results of regression analysis showed that income, employment status, access to health services, health status, access to recreational facilities, educational level, social Solidarity and distance from the cityare variables that affect the mental well-being of rural youth. Also, the results showed that there is a positive relationship between the wellbeing of the rural youth and their willingness to remain in the village.

One of the main strategies for sustainable rural development is the development of self-employment among rural youth. Entrepreneurship characteristic, attitude and intention are the factors affecting entrepreneurial and self-employment behaviors. Therefore, awareness of the level of entrepreneurial characteristics, attitude, and intention among rural youth and their relationship has great importance in the development of entrepreneurship and self-employment programs in rural areas. This study is performed to assess the effect of entrepreneurship characteristics on attitude and intention of self-employment of rural youth as two phenomena explain the behavior. The samples consisted of rural youth from West Islam Abad county that 200 of them were selected randomly. The survey instrument was a questionnaire; According to experts confirmed the validity of the way it was and to evaluate the reliability of the reliability of the combination was used. Data processing was the dominant method of covariance-based structural equation modeling as a result the adjusted model showed that despite the attitude of self-employment and entrepreneurial characteristics of rural youth from West Islam Abad county had a significant positive effect. This finding suggests that both attitude and intention of self-employment are effected by individual entrepreneurial characteristics simultaneously.

Agriculture plays a pivotal role for economic growth and rural development through providing food requirement and job opportunities in developed country. Furthermore, the future development of agriculture in each country is based on rural youth. As such, these are not, of course, completely separate or mutually exclusive; in fact, they should go hand in hand for their future survival. The purpose of this study was investigating rural youth’ intention toward agriculture jobs in Baghmalek Township. To achieving this purpose the present study uses the theory of Social Cognitive Career, as a research framework. The population of interest was rural youth between 15 to 29 years old in Baghmalek Township.The study sample (270) was selected through a multi stage cluster sampling. The reliability and validity of the instruments were examined and approved. Pearson correlation analysis was revealed that intention had a positive direct relation with self-efficacy, expected result, other behavior and facilitation and have a negative relation with barriers. Multiple regression analysis showed that Self-efficacy, outcome expectations, understanding other's behavior, interests and barriers can predict 74% of variances in youth intention toward agriculture jobs.

The purpose of this paper was to evaluate entrepreneurial talent among rural youths in Gilan-e-Gharb County. The study's population included 1453 rural youths. A number of 160 rural youth were randomly selected as research sample by using Morgan's sampling size table. A standard questionnaire with Likert scale (five levels) was used. The reliability of the questionnaire estimated with Cranach's Alpha coefficient that was 0.9. In order to analyze data, t-test (rural male and female) was used in SPSS software. The results showed that the entrepreneurial talent of rural youth was too weak in most indexes like internal locus of control, intellectual clearness, motivation, risk taking and activism but the rate of challenging was higher than the benchmark. In addition to it was found that there were significant differences in activism between rural boys and girls.

Rural development could be achieved by empowered people who are educated, informed, motivated and have healthy physical condition for doing agricultural activities. Recently, rural youth unwillingness for agricultural activities has caused of aging of farmers in this sector. The purpose of this descriptive- survey study was to investigate the reasons and causes of low willingness of rural youth for agricultural employment in Bouinzahra Township. The target population of consisted of all rural youth of 15-24 ages who live in rural areas. Based on Randomized multistage sampling method, 270 rural youth by using Cochran formula were selected for study. The research tool was a researcher-made questionnaire which its validity was verified by a panel of experts. The reliability of questionnaire was obtained by calculating alpha cronbach equals of 0.80. The analysis of data by SPSS revealed that difficulty of agricultural activities in comparison with other activities, low income of agricultural jobs in comparison with other jobs and low considerable support of rural sector by policymakers were ranked respectively very important. Factor analysis of Data revealed that four factors named as economical, attitudinal, social and educational explained 48.74% of youth unwillingness to employ in agricultural sector

Entrepreneurship is very important in order to creating jobs for the unemployed and educated youth. As regards educated youth have fewer tendencies to self-employment and investment in this context. Therefore this study was performed with the objective investigating personality skills of entrepreneurial of rural youth and suggest solutions for strengthen these skills in Gonbad-e-Kavous County. The statistic population consisted of all 15-24 years old rural youth in Gonbad-e-Kavous County. 347 rural youth were selected applying Cochran’s formula. The sample was drawn using stratified sampling method with proportional allocation. To collect data، a questionnaire was developed. Validity of instrument was confirmed by faculty members of the department of agricultural management and development، University of Tehran and experts revised the questionnaire. The reliability was calculated using Cornbrach’s Alpha (0. 85). The data were analyzed using Spsswin. 19. The results of the Prioritize of personality skills of entrepreneurial of rural youth showed that pragmatism entrepreneurial characteristics are priority and next priorities were: need to succeed، center of control، risk appetite، seeking to challenge، tolerance of ambiguity. The results of the Correlation analysis indicated، there was just significant relationship between education and youth''s skills of entrepreneurial personality. The independent T Test indicated significance differences between youth''s tendency to establish agricultural occupations and skills of risk appetite، center of control and tolerance of ambiguity.

Youth, as constructors of future community, have a role in sustainable development. Young people develop the skills, knowledge and attitude that enable them to take an active role in society. The purpose of this study was to identify effective factors regarding Kermanshah township rural youth participation in agricultural development and extension programs. The research method used was a descriptive- correlation. Survey method was used to gather data. The population of this study included all rural youth at Kermanshah Township. Content and face validity of the instrument were established by a panel of experts ‌in the field of agricultural extension and education. An instruments reliability was estimated by calculating cronbach alpha coefficient of 0.84 was achieved for the study. The finding of this study showed that; approximately of the respondent that amount of participation was average. Results indicated that there was significant relationship according Pearson correlation coefficient between communicational characteristics, size of farm animal units (Significance Level: 0.001), size of farm land (Significance Level: 0.01) with participation in agricultural development and extension programs