Agricultural student's attitude towards entrepreneurial activity in form of agricultural cooperatives

Agriculture is one of the important economic sectors and has a key role in national security. On the other hand, reform and institutionalism for targeted activity of human resources in agriculture precinct is one of the appropriate strategies for agricultural development. In between, agricultural cooperatives have the necessary capabilities. The present study aimed to investigate student's attitudes towards business in the form of agricultural cooperatives.This research was applicable from objective point of view and descriptive-correlation method considering its method, which has been done with survey approach. Statistical population of this study was included senior students in agricultural fields of Shiraz universities in 2010-11 academic year. The sample size was estimated to be 327 persons using Krejcie and Morgan tables. The main tool for data collection was questionnaire and its validity determined by panel of experts and also reliability of research tool was calculated by Cronbach’s alpha coefficient, which was equal to 0.84 for different parts of questionnaire. The results showed that the students understanding about agricultural cooperatives were in lower limit and 42.2 percent of students had positive attitude regarding agricultural cooperatives. The positive and significant relationship was observed between educational field, familiarity with cooperation and attitude about cooperation and activity in form of agricultural cooperatives. The results show that there is significant difference between males and females’ attitude about activity in the form of agricultural cooperatives at 95 percent significance level. Also there is no significant difference between Azad, governmental and Payam-e-Noor university students towards activity in the form of agricultural cooperatives at 95 percent significance level.