JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION AND EDUCATION RESEARCH
Year:2016 | Volume:8 | Issue:4 (32)|Papers Count:8

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.

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 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.

The purpose of this study was Identification and applying AHP method in prioritization and comparison educational barriers and sustainable development on production of edible insects as diets from the viewpoint of selected groups. It was an applied research, research method was analytical, descriptive and statistical society was four groups of specialists, livestock and poultry producers, insect's producers and consumers of Alborz and Tehran provinces. Identify barriers did by library studies, search in academic sites and interview with related experts. These barriers prioritized in 2 main criterion and 19 sub-criteria after confirmed professors hierarchical tree was designed by AHP method and gave to 20 people of each group experts and the weight of each of sub-indices calculated and prioritized by Expert Choice 11 software the inconsistency ratio less than 0.1 and verified compatibility, results showed that: review of experts and consumers. Lock of promote the culture of goods forage insects and their products (0.171, 0.159), in terms of livestock and poultry producers, lake of educational programs with related topics in the school (0.163). The most important of educational barriers of production of Edible insect was lake of direct instruction (face to face in terms of manufactures insects in relation to production and consumption of edible insects (0.212). The obstacles sustainable development, non-performance management system of production of edible insects in terms of popularity (0.189, 0.295, and 0.199) from point of view of specialists, insects producers and consumers and from point of view of livestock and poultry producers, most important barrier in production of edible insects was uncertainty about sustainability of occupational health and social health.

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 importance 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.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the factors that will influence orchardmen intentions and behavior towards water conservation by application of extended theory of planned behavior (ETPB). The sample study were 300 orchardmen from Dashtestan County in Boushehr province that was selected through multi-stage random sampling method. Collecting data in this study was conducted by self-constructed questionnaire. Questionnaire validity was confirmed by the panel of expert and its reliability was approved through pilot study and calculating Cronbach's alpha values. Hierarchical regression analysis showed that attitude variables, subjective norm, self-efficacy and moral norms can predict 67.7% of variances in farmers’ intentions toward water conservation (R2=67.7). Moreover, Hierarchical regression, also revealed that intention was only predictor of behavior (R2=45.0). In conclusion, the results of this study demonstrated that the ETPB can be used as a conceptual framework for intervention programs aimed at increasing water conservation intention and behavior.