JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION AND EDUCATION RESEARCH
Year:2010 | Volume:3 | Issue:1|Papers Count:11

The purpose of this research was to  surveying attitudes of students at the high schools level in Shiraz, Iran toward protecting environment. This is an applied research that conducted by using a descriptive-correlation method. Target population included 6611 female students from 33 high schools in the City of Shiraz, which 334 of them selected through a random sampling method. Data was collected in the field by using questionnaires. The face validity of questionnaires was considered by the research committee members and other experts in this field. The reliability of the questionnaires was determined by using Cronbach Method and became 0.79. The results of the analysis of correlation coefficient showed that there was a significant relationship between the level of awareness of students about environment's issues, their interest about  environment, their attitudes toward environment protection, taking part in voluntary environmental activities, number of visiting by environemtal experts at schools, visiting the related environmental organizations by students, using educational films and tendency toward establishing  environmental organizations and their attitudes about environemtal protection. The results of multiple regression indicated that 47 percent of the variance in the perception of respondents could be explained by variables interest in environmental protection, attitudes toward about environmental protection, using the educational films in the field of environment and tendency to establishing environmental organization.

The major purpose of this research was to examine feasibility of applying the e-learning for agricultural extension and education students at the Razi University in Kermanshah by using factor analysis which attempting to explain underlying factors as latent variable through explicit variables. Target population involved the students who were master student within the years of 2005-2008. The student consisted of 250 students, using by census. Questionnaire was the instrument used in gathering data. Content and face validity of the instrument were measured by the faculty members of agricultural extension and education department at Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch. The reliability of the instrument achieved 85% was measured by Cronbuch Alpha coefficient. The results of factor analysis showed that there were four factors as latent variables that explained about 65 percent of variance in research variables.  

The government applies variety of policy instruments for supporting the producers and consumers, over the period of time. These instruments can divided into two major categories, producers and consumer support policies. One of the government's support policies is to support production technological improvements. In this study after estimating the supply and demand functions of maize during 1961-2007, the impacts of technological progress on producers and consumers surpluses as well as net social surpluses have been determined. It is assumed that the technological progress is the causes of a decrease in price in three scenarios like, 2%, 5%, 10 %. It turns out that with the price elasticties of demand and supply of -0.43 and 0.24 respectively, the share of producer's surplus from social welfare is to be determined about more than 65%.

The purpose of this study was to determine the cotton farmers’ educational needs based on perception of extension agents in the Semnan province. The research design was a descriptive and correlation surveying method. Extension agents in Semnan province were the target population for this study (n= 45). The five factors were the training farmers about disease, weed and irrigation; land preparation; chemical inputs; chemical hormones; preserving of crops and  biological methods in combating pests. The results obtained from the factors analysis revealed that the six factors explain 75% the variation of the cotton farmers’ educational needs.

The main purpose of study was to assessing the educational needs of apple producers, and determines the relationship between personal characteristics and social behavior of apple producers and their extension and educational needs. The population of this study included apple producers (N= 310) in the Eglid Township, Fars Province, of which 170 apple producers was selected by using cluster random sampling. Results indicated that most preferred educational methods by apple producers were identified as visiting extension agents. Finally casual model indicated variable that visiting maling cultivate, rate of apple production and communication which estimated about 83% of the change of the educational needs.

This study investigates the rose garden industry and other related activities in the Cammo in region of Kashan. The research method was qualitative and quantitative. The population of study consisted of all managers of rose garden factories and 113 member of household head of families who were involved in rose garden industry. The results of the study shows that increasing cost in rose garden factories resulted in decreasing the profits; owners of factories had better income compared to others and profits from rose garden industry have helped the development of this region.

Iran's economy dependent on oil revenues and petroleum products is one of the fundamental problems that constantly develop programs to rid the country to develop non-oil export, so various policies and strategies intended to developing non-oil exports as one of these cases. Meanwhile, the saffron as one of the major non-oil export items has been influence under various factors over time. In this study, the status of saffron exports, supply and demand functions exported has been estimated. Then, using the following levels of supply and demand curves, changes in welfare levels of exporters and importers of 5, 10 and 20 percent in export prices has been estimated during 1973 -2007 and forecasted up to 2013. Result indicated the stationary variables in different stage. Also in supply and demand export equations linear estimating was better than logarithmic and seemingly unrelated regression than 3sls and ARIMA model in forecasting welfare change. Also it is recommended that for the prevention of lower exports, product price volatility in world markets should not be high.

In this study it has been tried to investigate the feasibility of establishing a utilization system on basis of farmers' participation. To achieve that goal, the "Mixed Method" has been used and through land survey the required information of a selective society has been gathered; and by considering the independent variables (age, education, the quantity of land, economical factors, social factors, technical factors, cultural-educational factors); and dependant variables (the acceptance of participatory based utilization system); the information of this investigation was statistically tested. The results of this study indicate that the basic parameters of the investigation (including age, the level of education and land ownership) do not have a significant relation with the participation of respondents; however all of aforementioned parameters significantly affected the variance of defendent variable  in a way that 85 percent of the variance has been correlated to only two variables of economical and cultural-educational factors. Overall; by interpretation and analysis of the gathered data it could be stated that the establishment of a utilization system on the basis of people's participation in the study area is feasible and tightening the socio-economic backgrounds could enhance the success of that system.