Investigating Factors Affecting Farmer’s Intention of Adopting Renewable Energy Technology in Larestan County

Considering the importance of promoting and developing renewable energy technologies in today's world, the purpose of this study was to Investigating factors affecting farmer’s intention of adopting renewable energy technology in Larestan County of Iran. In order to achieve this goal, at first, it has been attempting to extract the factors affecting farmer’s intention of adopting by browsing library sources and documents. To determine the validity of the questionnaire, panel of experts of the department of agricultural extension and education of Tarbiat Modares University was used further more to access reliability of the research tool, Cronbach’s alfa test was used. Then, for different parts of completed questionnaires, Cronbach's alpha coefficient was calculated by using SPSS-22 software and showed that the questionnaire has a good reliability. A survey method was used to conduct this research. This research  in terms of purpose was applied research type, in terms of controlling variables was non- experimental and in term of data analysis was descriptive- correlative based on structural equations modeling. Statistical population included 2501 farmers of Larestan. Stratified random sampling method was used for sampling and sample size was determined by considering Kerjcie and Morgan table (n=331). The results of the research showed that among studied variables, attitude, perceived usefulness, self-efficiency, technology trust, ease of use, social effect, awareness and facilitating conditions respectively had the most influence on farmer’s intention of adopting renewable energy technologies and the level of intention of adopting of 83% of the farmers was in good condition.