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Medicinal plants not only have economic advantages but also can improve social health. In spite of developing the plantation of medical plants throughout Mazandaran province, one of the main challenges of that the farmers are faced is the marketing of their products. Present study aimed to analyze marketing of medical plants products, and to present appropriate marketing strategies based on farmers’ views. Statistical population included the farmers who were cultivating medical plants in the eastern part of Mazandaran province (Sari, Neka, Behshahr and Galogah Township). 339 farmers were selected as sample by stratified random sampling using the Krejcie and Morgan table. Descriptive and quantitative research method, survey technique and questionnaire tool were used to collect data. The research results showed that farmers mainly sell their products through retailing, brokers, or medicinal herbs sellers. The most important challenges in the cultivation and marketing of medicinal plants have been the high cost of production inputs, the small number of processing and packaging workshops, low international exports, the inability to access to financial credits, and the low awareness of farmers about the marketing of medicinal plants. based on the farmers’ view, strategies such as granting low-interest financial credits, setting up processing workshops, training and empowering farmers in the field of marketing, facilitating the issuance of licenses, creating permanent and temporary markets for direct sales, guaranteed purchase by the government and providing consumption subsidies, can improve marketing of medicinal plants

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In recent decades, climate change and frequent droughts have had great impacts on farming systems and have led farmers to become accustomed to these conditions, which are causing problems, especially, for smallholder farmers. With the severe weather events and their adverse effects, especially in arid regions, farmers' adaptation to these changes is indisputable and critical strategy. Thus, farmers need to make complex decisions about mitigating the adverse effects of climate change to take advantage of newer opportunities as possible. The understanding of the process by which farmers decide to stand facing climate changes and probing into the determinants of the process provide research evidence for policy makers to assist farmers to adapt to climate change effects. This article would establish a conceptual framework, inclusive of factors influencing farmers’ decision-making to adapt to climate change, and would clarify causal relations among these factors. According to the results, household characteristics, economic factors, knowledge, motives and goals, perceived outcomes of adaptation, social, personal norms, perception of climate change, perceived risk and obstacles, attitude towards climate change, prospective perception of climate change, the evaluation of climate change, and adaptation initiatives could influence farmers’ decisions to adapt to climate change.

This research was conducted to identify the educational and extensional needs of strawberry growers in Mazandaran province. The statistical population consisted of strawberry growers in five counties of Mazandaran province (with more than 70% of the province's production, N = 3000), 240 of them were selected by Cochran's formula and multi stage random sampling technique. Data was collected through a questionnaire that its validity was confirmed by faculty members of agricultural extension & education and horticulture departments in Sari Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources University and Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources University of Khuzestan, also calculating Ordinal Theta revealed the suitable reliability of measuring instrument (range 0.78 to 0.86). Mean, standard deviation and spearman correlation, were used for data analysis and prioritization of needs as well as inferential statistics: mean rank comparison and ordinal regression. The results of study showed that three educational needs: stress tolerance, fruit quantity and fruit quality ranked first to third in importance. In tolerance to stress dimension, the resistance of the plant to winter cold and plant resistance to disease and pests were in the first and second priorities. In total, from 55 studied needs, fruit firmness in transfer was the most significant item. Based on Spearman’ correlation test, the variables of agricultural experience, education, income and daily work hours had significant relationship with the educational & extensional needs. According to ordinal regression results and Nagelkerke coefficient, these four variables can predict 59.7% of the changes in the educational and extensional needs of strawberries growers.

The growth and development of any society requires the optimal utilization of its educated human resources. Agricultural students and graduates as specialists in agricultural sector are the main stimulus of agricultural development in the country. The occupation of agricultural graduates is one of the most important concerns of society and plicymakers. The increasing unemployment rate of the university graduates has raised many concerns for agricultural students and their families. Therefore, present research was conducted with the aim of assessing students' attitudes toward the future of occupation in agricultural sector, in Sari Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources University. Present research is a descriptive- correlational study and survey method with questionnaire was used to collect data. The statistical population of the study was all students of Sari Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources University (2770 students). A sample of 321 students were selected using stratified random sampling. The validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by the experts in agricultural extension and education and the Cronbach's alpha coefficient was used to measure the reliability of the questionnaire scales (ranged 0.723 – 0.881). The study results revealed that students' attitude toward the future of occupation in agricultural sector was in average. Moreover, the results of mean comparison tests showed that there was no significant difference between male and female students, students of different faculties and students with different job situation regarding their attitudes toward the future of occupation in agriculture. But students who had at least an acquaintance with the agriculture filed before entering the university had a more favorable attitude toward the future of the agricultural sector. The results of regression analysis showed that students' attitudes towards future of occupation in agriculture are affected by the degree of the related people agreement with their choice of the field of agriculture, the degree of facing with problems at the university, the amount of studying and the duration of attending the university.

Controlling present national water crisis needs to accompany moral development alongside other economic, law, technical, knowledge and management strategies. In this regards, the analysis of water users’ moral development based on their cognitive and reasoning is very important. Present study aimed to analyze farmers’ moral judgment and reasoning in exploitation of agricultural water resources in Khoramabad county. In this way, the moral development theory of cognitive psychologist, Lawrence Kohlberg, was applied to analyze two moral dilemmas in exploitation of agricultural water resources. Survey technique and questionnaire tool were used to gather data form 310 subjects. The questionnaire face validity was confirmed by a panel of experts at department of agricultural extension and education at Shiraz University, and the questionnaire reliability was approved by a pilot study with 30 subjects outside of statistical population (Cronbach’s alpha range: from 0.82-0.87).The results showed that the proponents of digging illegal well preferred first moral reasoning level (Pre-conventional ethics) at second stage (The instrumental relativist orientation) for judging towards digging illegal dilemma; but, the opponents focused on second moral reasoning level (conventional ethics) at fourth stage (The "law and order" orientation). Also, the opponents’ moral judgment of second dilemma (preventing to fill of illegal well) based on third moral reasoning level (post-conventional ethics) at fifth stage (The social-contract legalistic orientation); although the proponents preferred second moral reasoning level (conventional ethics) at third stage (The interpersonal concordance orientation). Finally, based on the research results, some recommendations were provided.

Environmental issues and challenges in this era caused an attention to software strategies (environmental behavior and ethics) alongside hardware solutions (to produce environmental technologies). In other hand, the evolution of environmental behavioral theories caused a hope for understanding humanenvironment relations. Using analytical-critical method, the present study aimed to explain and critic western theories of moral behavior, then present Islamic theories of moral behaviors. Western scientists present some moral behavior theories in relationship with environment like Theories of "reasoned action", "planned behavior", "norm-action" and "value-belief-norm". Despite, vast diffusion and using of these theories, they were criticized for neglecting moral variables like moral norms and human value orientations. In other hand, Islamic philosophers and scientists have moral behavior theories that seems are cope with ethics spiritual characteristics of Islamic societies. In present study some Islamic theories are presented. It is recommended that Islamic scientists at philosophy of ethics and moral psychology try to inference moral behavioral theories from Islamic resources; and then apply these theories in field researches in order to improve their predictability power.

In recent years, degradation of environment (water and soil resources) by farmers has increase concerns about sustainability of agriculture. Farmers’ behaviors affect conservation of these resources and play important role in sustainability of agriculture as well. Shiraz County like other parts of the country suffers for degradation of soil and water resources. The aim of this study was to provide a model that can predict Farmer’s environmental behavior of Shiraz County using Value-Belief-Norm theory. Statistical population includes the farmers of Shiraz County. Questionnaire was the instrument for data gathering. Multi-stage cluster random sampling was used to collect data from 372 farmers as the research sample (by Krejcie & Morgan). The questionnaire validity was confirmed by panel of professors at Agricultural Extension and Education Department Shiraz University. The questionnaire reliability was assessed with Cranach’s alpha (data from pilot study). The results showed that biosphere value-orientation, altruistic value- orientation, environmental personal (moral) norm, and responsibility to protect environment had the most influence on forming farmers’ environmental behaviors. Adduced as recommendations are 1) providing the training to change farmer’s egoistic value-orientation to biosphere value-orientation and altruistic value- orientation; 2) provide training the personal (moral) to correct relationships between famers and environment, and 3) increase farmer’s responsibility for protection of environmental resources.