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Agriculture, as the main pillar of economic development, significantly contributes to the country's gross domestic product (GDP) and job creation. The sustainability process of the agricultural sector in economic indicators depends on the strategic planning of agricultural businesses based on existing capacities and limitations. In order to organize this process in line with the goals of the 6th Development Plan and implement the provisions of the law on improving the business environment and the law on increasing the productivity of the agricultural sector and natural resources, business engineering and investment opportunities in the agricultural sector are necessary. So, the purpose of this research was the strategic analysis of the development of agricultural businesses in Karaj County and identifying business development priorities.

The current research is applied in terms of purpose and survey in terms of data collection, and interview tools and semi-structured questionnaires were used to collect information. The necessary data were collected from 10 academicians and public sector experts and 10 entrepreneurs and activists of the private agricultural sector of the province as a panel of experts. In this study to introduce business development strategies, the SWOT model was used. Also, according to the characteristics, capacities and natural, economic and social limitations, business priorities and investment opportunities in the agricultural sector of Karaj County were introduced.

In this research, the most important strength was "suitability of the region's climate, its diversity and fertility of the soil for agriculture", the strongest weakness was "change of land use and land fragmentation", the most valuable opportunity was "potential for commercialization of a diverse range of agricultural products" and finally, "inclination to construction due to the high added value of land" was introduced as the most important threat to the development of agricultural businesses from the point of view of experts. The comparison of the internal space (the average sum of strengths and weaknesses) and the external space (the average sum of opportunities and threats) of the development of agricultural businesses of Karaj County, showed that the space of the internal and external environment, respectively, has a final coefficient of (2.603 and 1.792) respectively which leads to the suggestion of competitive strategies (ST). Therefore, "amendment and implementation of land use change laws and prevention of construction in agricultural areas", "focusing on the development of agricultural businesses such as small and medium-scale conversion and complementary industries" and "adopting the approach of producing special and valuable products especially the extension and development of the production of healthy and organic products" were the most important strategies for the development of agricultural businesses of Karaj county.

Based on the findings of this research, it was found that the selection of development strategies as well as business priorities should be appropriate to the conditions and situation of the region. On this basis, creating or developing businesses in the fields of small and medium-scale transformation and complementary industries, agricultural settlements, animal husbandry and modern greenhouses, laboratory knowledge-based service units, standardization, quality certification, branding, production of vegetable and summer seeds and products, eco-tourism and agricultural tourism were suggested.

Medicinal plants are the natural treasure of any country. It has a great impact on improving the health and cultural indicators of Socio-economic. Drought and water shortage crisis has introduced the development of production and processing of medicinal plants with low water requirement as one of the most important areas of agricultural development in Sistan and Baluchestan province. Due to the limited public financial resources and the importance of the role of the private sector, the goal of the research was to identify the Entrepreneurial Investment priorities in this industry and its research priorities in this province.

In this research was used mixed research method. It is the approach of qualitative and quantitative research method. The statistical population was researchers and experts in the field of medicinal plants in the province. The study sample was 10 medicinal plant experts for qualitative section and 30 researchers and experts in the field of medicinal plants in the province in the quantitative section. The research tool in quantitative was a structured questionnaire whose validity and reliability were confirmed in the quantitative section. The 27 medicinal plants in the country have a more comparative advantage and the private sector can invest in 21 areas in the qualitative sector. The "compiling a comprehensive program of research on medicinal plants" and "preparing an Entrepreneurial Investment and employment map in the medicinal plants industry" are the most important infrastructure programs for the development of this industry in the province. Also, the two research topics are "Market Development and Export" and "Processing". On the other hand, Moringa peregrina, Hibiscus sabdariffa, Terebinth (Pistacia atlantica), Teucrium polium, Nigella sativa, Ferula Assa-Foetida and Glycyrrhiza glabra were the top seven and most talented medicinal plants in the province for Entrepreneurial Investment. Also, improved seed production, creation of a marketing and sales network, and increased outdoor production performance were Entrepreneurial Investment priorities in the development process of the province's medicinal plants industry. According to the research results in order to organize and increase the productivity of the medicinal plants industry in the province, need to be developed and implemented. "Comprehensive Medicinal Plants Research Program", "Investment and Employment Plan in Medicinal Plants", "Comprehensive Medicinal Plants Production Plan", "Comprehensive Export Program Medicinal plants”, “Comprehensive program to promote the use of medicinal plants" and "Special research program for the production of new herbal medicines". Also in the next 10 years, the private sector will invest in improving the quantity and quality of the international marketing and sales network, producing improved seeds, establishing a marketing and domestic sales network, managing the production and harvesting of pastures and greenhouse production of medicinal plants: Moringa peregrina, Hibiscus sabdariffa, Terebinth (Pistacia atlantica), Teucrium polium, Nigella sativa, Ferula Assa-Foetida and Glycyrrhiza glabra.

This paper was aimed to investigate the variables affecting students' satisfaction towards practical projects amid education in the agricultural education and research centers. This was a quantitative research which applied a survey method to collect the data. The statistical population of the study was all students active in practical projects amid education equal to 102 people. This research was conducted in centers where at least 3 projects have been implemented, such as research centers of Isfahan, East Azerbaijan, Sistan and Baluchestan, Qazvin, Khorasan Razavi, Mazandaran, Hamedan, Bushehr and Imam Khomeini Higher Education Center. Due to few number of members of the statistical community, all of them were studied by census method. The main research tool was a researcher-made questionnaire which its reliability was evaluated by Composite Reliability (CR) for each of the research instrument constructs which was above 0.7 indicating the internal reliability of the questionnaire and GOF index which was 0.571 indicting good fitness of model. The data was analyzed using PLS-SMART and SPSS software. The results showed that from the perspective of the respondents, the experience of the agent of the projects, proper supervision of project supervisors and careful planning of executive are effective in students' satisfaction towards projects.

Today, human resources is regarded as the most important asset of private sector companies as well as governmental agencies. Creative, innovative, and highly productive human resources is a major contributor of organizational success. In this regard, the aim of this study was to identify factors affecting the creativity of employees of the Ministry of Jihad Agriculture. The statistical population of the current study was the staff of the Ministry of Jihad Agriculture. Out of this population, 305 cases were selected using Cochran's formula and cluster sampling. The main research tool was a questionnaire which its content validity was confirmed by a panel of experts and construct validity was evaluated by average variance index (AVE). Also, Cronbach's alpha coefficients and composite reliability (CR) indices were used to measure the reliability of the research tool in this study. The results of reliability tests revealed that all of observations were at an acceptable level. The results of structural equation modeling showed that the three factors of organizational structure, individual factors, and group factors had the greatest significant effects on employee creativity, respectively.

Science and technology parks are of the most important tools to achieve a knowledge-based economy, and its main purpose is to help innovative entrepreneurs to establish companies and businesses. So that they can succeed and compete in national and international free markets with minimum risk. Agriculture is one of the important economic sectors of the country that needs technology development to overcome the existing challenges. Due to the small number of companies and agricultural knowledge-based enterprises, it is imperative to help the growth and development of these units by creating a supportive structure. Agricultural science and technology park can pave the way for this purpose by taking the advantage of the existing capacities. The purpose of this research was to strategic analysis of establishing specialized agricultural science and technology parks. For this purpose, using the points of view of experts, internal strengths and weaknesses and external opportunities and threats to create these parks were identified and some potential development strategies were introduced. Comparison of internal and external space of agricultural science and technology parks showed that with coefficients 0.14 and -0.31, internal and external spaces are positive and negative, respectively. In other words, strengths prevail in the internal environment and threats in the external environment. The results of prioritizing strategies based on the weight of the constituents of each strategy also illustrated that with a weight of 0.0754, competitive or diversity strategies (ST) ranked in first priority. In other words, it is necessary to provide space for the implementation of competitive or diversity strategies (ST) for the construction of an agricultural science and technology park.

The purpose of this study is to identify and investigate the investment fields in the medicinal plants of Sistan and Baluchestan province. A structured questionnaire was used for the validity and evaluation of the findings by a panel of experts and its reliability was confirmed by Aloha Cronbach index. The sample included 30 medicinal plants experts. The research findings showed that there is a significant difference between the current status of attention to different investment areas and the impact of these areas on the development of the medicinal plants industry, in such a way that the current level of attention is much less than its impact. The results confirmed that in pre-planting stage, “production of organic fertilizers” and the “production of modified seeds” were the highest priorities. On the other hand, at the stage of harvesting and storing the highest investment priorities were in two areas: "Production of special equipment and machinery for harvesting medicinal plants" and "Technology for the detection of the most appropriate harvesting time, taking into account the highest quality and most effective ingredients". At the processing stage of medicinal plants, there are also two priority areas for the “production of aromatic, oral and medicinal products and medicinal plant extracts” and “the production of equipment and processing plants for medicinal plants”. Also, two important investment priorities in packaging and transportation of the medicinal herbs  determined the standards required in the field of packaging and transportation", "technologies for assessing the compliance with international standards for the packaging of medicinal plants", in the marketing  at export stage, "Training of pharmaceutical marketing and exporters", "Development of marketing and sales of medicinal herbs", "Creation and development of marketers and exporters (with guaranteed purchasing systems, etc.)" and the "Creation of Medicinal herbs markets in each of the cities" are recognized as the main investment priorities.

Reengineering the governmental construction in developing countries for enhancement of government organization power and enhancement of non-government section role in agricultural development causes advent new capacities of entrepreneurship human resources and prudence their position in managing and these evolution. The agricultural higher education system in order to preserve responsible in training these sources should launch by increasing educational planning quality toward training entrepreneur person. By attention to the problems and challenges of higher education system of applied scientific in education in this resources, recognizing the approaches of developing the student’s entrepreneurial capabilities is necessary. This issue was approved by statistics of graduate’s entrepreneurship in this higher education centers. Therefore, preserving the efficiency of this system is essential to know developing solution of student entrepreneurial abilities and planning to perform them. The main problem was lack of the related information in the greatest agricultural education center (Imam Khomeini higher education center). With regards the purpose of research, it has been done by survey method. The statistical population was 1595 of agricultural students studying in this center in 2012. The sample population was determined 195 people by the Cochran formula. The measurement instrument was questionnaire. The validity and reliability of questionnaire were confirmed. The results showed that average score the affects methods of entrepreneurial abilities development are more than the middle (3.53 of 5). In addition, the main factors of “give consulting services” and “planning for reform entrepreneurship skills” determine and explain the 20.48 and 19.48 percent of changing variance. At the end, results proposed creating professional business consulting corridor in agricultural applied- scientific higher education centers and planning the comprehensive plans for improvement student’s abilities about business and entrepreneurship via combining entrepreneurship topics in technical and specialized agricultural courses.

We decline if domot adapt the changing world and seeking mo new knowledge, product or services to offer, as results of creativity and innovation. Accordingly, the purpose of this study was to investigate strategies enhancing creativity in the staff at Imam Khomeini Agricultural scientific-applied Educational Center. A descriptive survey research was used in this study. The population included all the staff this center (N=120). About 71 staff was selected using Cochran's formula. Simple random sampling method was used as a research sampling method. The instrument to collect data was a questionnaire that its content and face validities were established by a panel of experts and its reliability was calculated by Cronbach’s-alpha coefficient for each part. Model parameter estimation is supported by Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). Result of structural equation modeling showed that: individual factors (r =0.97), organizational factors (r2= 0.88) and group factors (r3= 0.66) were affecting creativity of the staff. Accordingly few recommendations are presented to enhance creativity of staff at this educational center.