Motivators and Obstacles Affecting Rural Youth Tendency to Agricultural empowerment in Rural Qasr-e Shirin, Iran

According the crucial importance of rural youth in agricultural jobs, the purpose of this research was to study the effects of barriers to rural youth tendency to engage in agricultural jobs in villages of Qasr-e Shirin, Kermanshah Province. All young aged between 15 to 29 in rural Qasr-e Shirin formed the statistical population of this descriptive correlation research (N=4230). The sample size was determined using Cochran formula and samples were selected by multistage cluster sampling method. The face and content validity of questionnaire was approved using the panel related faculty members. Pre-test and calculating theta coefecient was used to measure the reliability (θ= 0.83). Applying Mann-Whitney test showed tendency to agricultural jobs by young members of mobile social network, was significantly lower than the non-members. Result of ordinal regression analysis showed that three variables, including worthiness feeling in the village, age and tendency towards rural area had a positive impact on tendency of youth to engage in the agricultural sector. But the educational level had a negative impact. Using factor analysis method, put obstacles to rural youth tendency toward agricultural jobs summarized into six factors including low attractiveness of agriculture and the lack of adequate employment facilities, higher productivity of non-agricultural jobs and arduous of agricultural work, negative attitude to the village and possibility of obtaining a higher position in the city, not proper grounds for farming, lack of welfare, health and recreational facilities in villages and higher profitability of capital in city.