جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « امکان کشت زعفران » در نشریات گروه « زراعت »

Nowadays, modern crop cultivation like saffron is very important for increasing the productivity of soil and water resources under drought conditions and leaving the single-product economy and achieving sustainable economic development in susceptible areas. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to investigate the possibility of cultivation of this plant from the attitude of farmers in villages of Arsanjan County. The survey method was used in this study. The statistical population has consisted of all farmers in the villages of Arsanjan in the 2018-2019 crop year. One hundred and fifteen samples were selected and studied by simple random sampling with the proportional assignment. The research instrument was a researcher-made questionnaire that the face and content validity was assessed by university professors and the reliability of its components achieved by a pilot study with Cronbach's alpha in the range of 0.5 to 0.8. The results of the t-test showed that saffron cultivation was possible with respect to the average value of the variables of farmer attitude (3.83) and the characteristics of crop innovation including comparative advantage (3.37), testability (3.20), adaptability (3.42) and visibility (3.14) in the area. Also, by cluster analysis, the studied farmers were divided into three groups: Poor Positive, Poor Moderate, and Poor Negative attitude regarding saffron cultivation. Fifty percent of farmers, who stay on the category of poor negative attitude, believed that there was an impossible condition about saffron cultivation with regard to their economic, social characteristics and their view of innovation. Finally, according to the results, suggestions were presented to facilitate the saffron cultivation in the area.