A Study on the Effect of Technical Knowledge of Farmers on the Production of Grape (Case Study: Baloo Village in Urmia City)

With regard to the importance of reforms in traditional agricultural methods, usage of modern technologies and need of training farmers, modern techniques, the effect of farmers’ technical knowledge on grape production in Baloo village of Urmia in 2000 - 2001 was investigated as a case study. It was found that experience, training, and use of cordon method had significant and positive effects on amount of production. But variables like age, education and being farmer as a main job, did not have significant effects. This indicates that share of traditional knowledge is more than other variables in the production process and the importance of training farmers by modern technologies was therefore, suggested.