جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « شالیکاران » در نشریات گروه « اقتصاد کشاورزی »

The main objective of this quantitative-qualitative research was to analyzing the mental preferences of paddy farmers towards second cultivation in Rasht County. The statistical population of the study consisted of 30 progressive farmers in Rasht County who were selected by purposive sampling technique. The collected data were analyzed by SPSS22 and Expert Choice11 softwares. The reliability and Validity of the questionnaire was approved by calculating the Cronbach's alpha and construct validity.The Findings showed that "lack of government support for the production and sale of these products, lack of successful model farms in cultivating alternative crops under government management" and "lack of an appropriate market for these products» with a ratio of 93, 90 and 73%, were the most important barriers to farmers' willingness to second cultivation, respectively. Also, the most important factors determining the type of cultivation were revenue generation, production costs and market for products, respectively. The results showed that, ratoon and local beans were in the highest ranks in the farmers' mental preferences in growing crops based on revenue generation, sales and production cost criteria, but in terms of water scarcity and employment criteria, local beans and forage were in the highest ranks, respectively. Overall, the results showed that, ratoon with a weight value above 0.453 was in the first priority in second cropping pattern and local beans and forage (with 0.353 and 0.087 weights) were in the next priorities, respectively. Designing an optimal cropping pattern, guaranteed purchase, establishing model farms and development of conversion industries are suggested.

One of the most suitable approch in which collaboration between researchers, promoters and farmers is facilitated and causes product and technology transfer is a Farmers Field School approach (FFS). It is a collaborative approach that uses informal adult learning methods based on practical learning techniques and is used collaborative learning methods. The purpose of this study was to determine the factors affecting the participation rate of Rice producers in order to participate in FFS training. Its territory was located in Rasht province in 2015. The statistical population of this research was all produsers of Rasht province (130 people) who have participated in FFS course in 2015. Using Cochran's relation, 97 people were selected as sample and randomly. The results of this study showed that the sub-cultivar, history of breeding, history of farming and the age of Rice produser had a positive effect on the number of farmers, and the number of components, the average annual agricultural income, and the average annual income of the non-agricultural sector were negatively affected

Human due to behaviors and changes towards the environment, can cause its degradation and specially soil. In this regard, to prevent the environmental degradation, human behaviors have to change towards pro-environmental dimensions. Achieve behavioral changes related to the environment, requires an understanding about human environmental attitudes. The purpose of this research was to analyze application of environmental attitudes in regard to investigating rice farmers’ pro-environmental behavior toward soil conservation in the central part of Sari township. This descriptive study conducted by using a survey. Research tool was a questionnaire which its validity and reliability were confirmed by using a panel of university professors and Cronbach's alpha, respectively. Stratified random sampling and Cochran formula were used to collect data from 120 rice farmers as a sample (N=9621). The results showed, 20.8 percent of rice farmers’ pro-environmental behavior was in the poor level, 20.8 percent as moderate, 25 percent as good and 14.2 percent was excellent. Also, findings revealed that those who have Egoistic view had lower levels of Pro-environmental behavior than others with biosphere and altruistic attitudes.

Insurance of agricultural products as a new tool for minimizing the risk of losses arising from volatility in the agricultural sector has been identified. The success of insurance policies in the agricultural sector is depend on acceptance of insurance by the farmers in these parts. The present study is surveying factors influencing acceptance of insurance by paddy farmers in Mazandaran province using logit and probit models in 2010-2011. Data were collected via implementing 73 questionnaires in Babol county. The results of this study indicate that the logit model is relatively better than the probit model and percentage of correct predictions of the logit model was 75%. Also، the survey results indicate that income، having another job and corporation with experts of extension and contribute in the promotion class had a positive effect on the acceptance of insurance. But self consumption and age of farmer had a negative effect. According to the findings، the main reasons of insurance rejection by paddy farmers would cover the following cases: incomplete compensation of loss، Lack of access to insurance brokers، don''t promote of insurance، small ground، high premiums and lack of adequate information about condition of insurance.