مجله پژوهش های ترویج و آموزش کشاورزی
سال هشتم شماره 4 (پیاپی 32، زمستان 1394)

The purpose of this study wasto determining amount of Farmers’ Satisfaction in Zabol Township from Wheat insurance. This is an applied and correlation research. Population were farmers wheat producers in city of Zabol during 1388 to 1391 which had wheat crop insurance. Based on the formula the sample size of 260 producers were selected. To select the samples size stratified proportional sampling was used. The research instrument was a questionnaire whose validity by a panel of experts to insure crops opinions of the revised confirmed and its reliability using Cronbach's alpha. Data gathered by a questionnaire and were analyzed using the software SPSS.20. The results showed that 54.5 percent of the farmers surveyed were satisfied with positive crop insurance. Results of regression estimates indicate that between know ledge variables Insurance wheat crops, wheat production history, visit the insuranceex pert sand frequency of participation in educational programs to the satisfaction of a significant positive relations hip Insurance wheat

The purpose of this research was to investigation the role of self-directed learning model on entrepreneurship development. That was a descriptive and correlation research method. To collect the data was developed. Total population for this study was 390 educators in applied science centers in Western Azerbaijan province that random stratified used to collect 128 of them. To analyze the data SPSS software was used. The results of the correlation between research and entrepreneurship development suggests that age, continuity and stability of employment, motivation, creativity and job creation have a significant relationship with the development of entrepreneurship. Based on the results of the research, the collective effect of independent variables on the dependent variable of the regression suggests that the variables of employment and creativity have a positive impact on the development of entrepreneurship. According to the results of prioritizing in increase self-confidence, educators can decrease graduate’s concern about starting a business failure with the correct training and they are confident in the launch business action

The purpose of research was to assess the quality indicators in Vocational and Technical Agricultural College in Ahwaz from the students’ perspective and educators. This research based on objective is an applied study and the research was correlational-descriptive method. Agricultural students (450) and educators (50) in vocational and technical agricultural college in Ahwaz considered as statistical population. After designing and validating the questionnaire, the questionnaire was pre-tested among 30 people and Cronbach alpha 0.83 was determined. The main tool was a questionnaire. In this study, after the collection and classification of data, according to the type of research in two stages using descriptive statistics and inferential statistics were taken. All data processing and statistical analysis was performed using the software SPSS 19. Based on these results, it was found that the attitudes of students and educators in the field of the higher education quality indicators in Vocational and Technical Agricultural College in Ahwaz, there is no significant difference. It was found that the indicators of quality in higher education in agriculture based on the views of students and educators is in a satisfactory condition. Factor analysis of items to improve the quality of the higher education agriculture showed that the most important are the emotional and attitudinal factors, the infrastructure, the educational qualification, the development of practical training, and support and credit

Drought is a climate catastrophic that rural communities have always facing with its multiple effects of that, including: economic and social problems. The purpose of this study was to measure the attitude of farmers towards drought and its related factors in Zanjanroud basin of Zanjan city. Descriptive survey method was used in this research. Data collection tool was a questionnaire. The validity of the questionnaire was approved by a panel of academic experts. Pre-test and calculating Cronbach's alpha coefficients were used to measure the reliability (0.74). Farmers in Zanjanroud watershed formed the population of the study and 140 samples were selected using cluster sampling. The findings of the study showed that the attitude of farmers to drought and its management is somewhat more justice than rational and farmers have little faith in the possibility of reducing the effects of drought with drought management practices. The result of Correlation analysis showed that there is significant and inverse relationship between age and attitudes to drought and a significant positive correlation between education and income with attitudes to drought. The result of stepwise multiple regression analysis showed that 24.8 percent of the variability in the attitude to drought explained by two variables including income and age

The purpose of this research was to determine level of agricultural sustainability by the means of a set of indicators. In assessing sustainability, the authors applied the sustainability indicator’ recommended by IDEA (Indicators of Sustainability of Agriculture) taking accountability method importanct we have adjusted based on agriculture experts opinions, according to agriculture provisions in Iran. The results of the study showed that crop diversity is the most sustainable aspect of environment dimension of agriculture. The least sustainable facts of agriculture in environment dimension are use of pesticides and water shortage. Hence percentage of sustainability index (36%) is too low for environment dimension of agricultural development. Results revealed that the main problem associated with economic dimension of agricultural sustainability was land size, agricultural employment. According to the indicators agricultural production and income levels are relatively stable (52%) than the other dimension. This was the small mixed farm where the premiums to be obtained from sale of products enabled it to become more economically viable. Among social indicators, farmer’s awareness of resource conservation was one of the critical issue, Hence based on all of indicators percentage of sustainability index (35.90%) is too low for social dimension of agricultural development.

According to the importance of Food security and irreparable damages resulting from overuse of agricultural chemicals on the environment and human health, the purpose of the research is evaluation the Organic Farming’s capabilities in Food Security. This is an applied research with quantitative, deductive, longitudinal retrospective, analytical, non-experimental and correlation and regression methodology. Statistical population for the research was agricultural experts in agriculture organization in Tehran province (N=61), and due to the limited statistical population, the sampling method was census. Dependent variable of the research is Food Security that measured by five parameters: food availability, accessibility, utilization, stability and safety and independent variable is Organic Farming. After data extraction, statistical analysis was carried out by SPSS-19 and Amos-5. The results showed that the majority of respondents (58.3%) believe that the situation of Food Security in Tehran is on average level. Also, the Organic Farming’s capabilities on food availability, accessibility, utilization, stability and safety in Food Security situation could explain 95.9 percent of Food Security variance.