Effective Factors of Increasing the Passive Defense Knowledge of Staff Expert in Ministry of Agriculture- Jahad

The principle of effective protection and exploitation of existing resources and inputs, is the one of the basic principles of sustainable development agriculture. For this purpose, education and empowerment of agricultural development stakeholders is a top priority for countries. Passive defense has been an important part of civilian defense and its subject area is deliberate external threats. This issue is of great importance in the agricultural sector due to the wide range of intentional external threats. In the meantime, the role of human resources in achieving the principles and implementation of passive defense objectives in the agricultural sector is more than other influential factors. The purpose of this study was to determine the strategies for increasing the knowledge of the Ministry of agriculture- Jahad staff. The research method was survey and the instrument was questionnaire. The statistical population was the experts of the Ministry of Agriculture - Jahad (N=261). They were selected by systematic random sampling method (n=145). The validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by its external validity and reliability by calculating Ordinal Theta coefficient. SmartPLS and Stata software were used for data processing. The results of Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) test showed that planning and provision of resources, appropriate training, incentives and points, administrative structure adjustment and field visits were among the most important strategies to enhance the level of passive defense knowledge of the Ministry of Agriculture Jahad experts. The results of enter regression analysis also showed that age and familiarity with passive defense goals had significant effect on increasing knowledge of experts.