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The main purpose of this research was to determine the impacts of fishing cooperatives on promoting entrepreneurship spirit among their members. The population included 1820 members of the three fishing cooperatives in Bushehr province. Three hundred twenty samples were selected by Kerjcie and Morgan Table. A proportional stratified sampling method was used to specify the sample's numbers for each cooperative. The validity of the questionnaires was gained by the use of a panel of experts, necessary corrections were implemented. The reliability was achieved by a pilot-test among 30 members. The results revealed that rate of the fishing cooperative's success to achieve entrepreneurship spirit promotion among the members assessed (52.2%) very much and (34.1%) moderate. The results of using multiple regression showed that the variables of participation in training courses, member's participation in cooperative, entrepreneurial characteristics among the cooperative's members, satisfaction of the cooperative's activities, establishing economic and financial structures for entrepreneurship development had respectively a positive significant effect on promoting entrepreneurship.

The Bushehr Province with an annual production of 45343 tons of total country`s productionis in third place in ranked. The aim of this study was to evaluate the functionally and technicalefficiency of agricultural insurance for growers in the province. Technical efficiency is one ofthe measures to evaluate the operating performance of agriculture. This cross-sectional studywas conducted as a survey. The target population includes all tomato growers Bushehr provinceby using cluster sampling from three counties of Dayyer, Dashti and Jam were collected in theprovince. The utilization of Patton table to determine the sample size of 8,000 tomato growersof Province, 367 people were in three counties of Dayyer, Dashti and Jam with 70, 57 and 65tomatoes growers uninsured and the number 65, 50 and 60 tomatoes growers insured ,the col￾lected information on the total sample were determined. The results showed that the averagetechnical efficiency of tomato farmers insurance group in counties of Jam, Dayyer, Dashti usingordinary least squares corrected, respectively, 61.8, 44.2 and 41.4 percent and for group not in￾sured respectively 60.5, 33.8 and 34.6 percent. The test results were compared and the averagetechnical efficiency of insured tomato growers in any county, showed that agricultural insurancein counties of Dashti and Dayyer had a positive and significant effect on the technical efficiencyof growers, while uninsured growers has no significant technical efficiency on growers of Jamcounty.

Participation in extension activities is one of the main challenges of extension programs planning in a way of rural sustainable development. In this regard، the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between participation and quality of extension activities in Rural Production Cooperatives (RPCs) of Boyer-Ahmad County. Quantitative research method along with descriptive-analytical technique in the form of comparative approach was applied. Statistic population of the study was the 1809 members of RPCs in Boyer-Ahmad County. The sample size (317) was determined by using the sample size table given by Patten. Stratified random sampling was used to select the participants. Face-to-face interviews were used to collect data with the aid of questionnaire containing open and closed questions. A panel of experts confirmed the face validity of the questionnaire. The KMO coefficient (0. 809 to 0. 834) and Cronbach’s Alpha coefficient (0. 830 to 0. 910) confirmed the validity and reliability of the instrument. Findings revealed that participation of the members in extension activities of RPCs was at moderate and low level. Furthermore، findings of one-way ANOVA showed that the RPCs were significantly different with regard to participation of members. Also، Person correlation coefficient showed significant correlation between members'' participation and quality of extension programs at RPCs. Furthermore، regression analysis showed that among the variables postulated in the model; level of information about cooperative''s law، quality of extension activities، and age together were able to explain 53. 5 percent of variability in the participation of the RPCs'' members.