جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه "agricultural" در نشریات گروه "علوم ترویج"

One of the weaknesses of the Staff Educational Programs (SEP) of Jihad –Agriculture Organization (JAO) is the less use of qualified and expert teachers. The purpose of this research was to investigate the factors affecting the participation of agricultural and natural resources faculty members in the SEP. This research used a quantitative paradigm through a survey and conducted in 2021. A sample of 82 out of 110 agricultural and natural resources faculty members of Urmia University was randomly selected. The research tool was a questionnaire that designed based on theory of planned behavior. The validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by 5 faculty members at Urmia University and its convergent validity was confirmed using AVE (0.52-0.73). The reliability of the questionnaire was calculated by the ordinal theta (0.71-0.90) and CR (0.81-0.95). The results showed that faculty members have a positive attitude towards SEP, but less than 10% of the faculty members have participated in pre or in-service SEP. Intention of them to educate the JAO staff is lower than the average. Based on the ordinal logistic regression analysis, faculty members' intention to participate in the SEP is influenced by the variables self-control, trust in the JAO, organizational community norms, and the experience of participating in SEP. Therefore, in order to strengthen the participation of the faculty members in the SEP, it is necessary to create a cooperation agreement between the universities and the JAO. It is also recommended that these programs should be strengthened in terms of payments for faculty member and be considered as the faculty member’s job promotion indicators.

the purpose of this study was to understand the tendency to choose a field in technical and professional branches and agricultural skills of ninth grade rural students and the factors affecting it. This research is a component of combined research in terms of nature and applied in terms of purpose. The statistical population of this study includes 1370 ninth grade students of rural boys working in the first secondary educational centers of Shushtar city in the academic year 1401-1400. The sample size was determined using Cochran's formula and using stratified random sampling method with a proportional allocation of 300 people.Were chosen Data collection tools; Nemati Academic Motivation Questionnaire (1399) and the validity and content of the questionnaire has been confirmed by professors and experts. Cronbach's alpha coefficient for different parts of this questionnaire was calculated between 0.72 and 0.92. Descriptive findings of this study showed that 23.3% of the students are interested in continuing their education in agricultural vocational school and 76/7 % were not interested in choosing agriculture. There was a positive and significant relationship between personal characteristics, social factor, and political factor, economic factor, challenging and tolerating ambiguity with the motivation of rural students to continue their education in agricultural vocational school. The results of sequential regression analysis showed that the variables of social factor, political factor, agricultural work experience,

Now days, the use of lean manufacturing techniques, as a constructive factor in sustainable supply chain planning, is emphasized not only to eliminate wastes, but also to create and improve customer value in the waste elimination process. This study aimed to provide a causal model between lean manufacturing tools affecting the supply chain sustainability in production cooperatives in East Azerbaijan Province. The statistical population of the study consisted of the managers of both industrial and agricultural production cooperatives in East Azerbaijan province, including 1573 mangers of cooperatives and 10 experts familiar with the research area. 301 mangers of cooperatives were selected based on the Krejcie and Morgan's table. A questionnaire was used to collect the data that its validity and reliability have already been confirmed. In order to data analysis, exploratory factor analysis and DEMATEL techniques were used. According to the results, nine main components can be considered as lean manufacturing tools affecting supply chain sustainability. Furthermore, the results of the developed model showed that the causal relations in the research conceptual model were confirmed, and can be effective for the supply chain sustinability of production cooperatives, increase profitability, reduce environmental proplems, and provide better performance to employees, customers and society.

The aim of this study was to analyze the entrepreneurial skills of Agricultural and Natural Resources students. The population was included 893 students of faculties of Agriculture, Water & Soil, and Natural Resources at University of Zabol and study sample was calculated 269 students using stratified random sampling. The data gathering instrument in this study was a questionnaire which its validity was confirmed by experts in the field of entrepreneurship and its reliability was confirmed through a pilot testing and Ordinal Theta was between 0.81 - 0.92. The results of the current and desired situations of the entrepreneurial skills showed that the team building skill is in ranked first. However, the skill of familiarity with the legal and commercial rules was ranked lowest in both the current and desired situations. The results showed that the deepest the gap between the desired and the current situation belongs to the skills of familiarity with the legal and commercial rules, writing a business plan, and communications, respectively. It recommended that the entrepreneurial skills should be taught as a multi-step process. In such a way that each entrepreneurial skill is segmented and each section should be taught both theoretically and then practically.

Agricultural Entrepreneurship One of the areas of entrepreneurship is the acceptance of the risks of a production, service, and business unit related to agricultural activities.  The purpose of this study was to analyze the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of entrepreneurship development in the agricultural sector of Khuzestan province using AHP-SWOT integrated approach. The research method is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive-analytic in nature. Data were collected using a questionnaire and interviews with experts (20 experts). The strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of SWOT were determined and strategies weighted using AHP. The results showed that the study area for development of agricultural entrepreneurship with 7 strengths and final points of 2.869, 14 weaknesses and final points of 2.195, 11 opportunity and final points of 2.894 and 13 threats and final points of 1.083 is facing. The results also showed that the existence of different climates at the provincial level and diversity in agricultural production are the most important strengths, lack of support from public institutions, and adequate access to government facilities. The most important weaknesses are the existence of natural capacities and potentials for investment in agriculture. Highlights of high opportunity and high risk investment in agricultural sector by the private sector are the most important threat point in the development of agricultural entrepreneurship in Khuzestan province.

Due to unemployment crisis, enhancing employability of university graduates in order to be able to adapt themselves with the market condition is critical. Therefore, cross-sectional research was conducted to compare self-reported employability of agricultural and engineering faculties students of Kurdistan University. The statistical population of this study consisted of senior students of these faculties in 2015-2016 (544 subject). According to the Morgan table, 140 of students were selected by proportional random sampling method. SPSS and Smart PLS statistical packages were used to especially analyze the data. According to the results, most of students believe that the work market in Iran is not sufficient, in their area of specialization and it is hard to find a decent job for most graduates. Further more, there was not significant difference between employability of agriculture and engineering students. Also, the results of the effects of independent variables on dependent variables showed that self-efficacy, entrepreneurial skills, knowledge and specialized skills, and entrepreneurial characteristics had the most powerful impacts on employability of students. The result of this study can be used to develop and enhance the employability of agricultural and engineering graduates in Iran.

The purpose of this study was to assessing of agricultural consulting services companies educators' information seeking behavior and in Ilam province and factors affecting it. The research method was correlation and used survey method. The statistical population consisted of agricultural educators (N =950). By using Krejcie and Morgan's (1970) Tale, 175 agricultural educators were selected as sample (n =175). Samples were selected through proportional stratified sampling method. A questionnaire used to collect the data. Content validity of the questionnaire was confirmed based on opinions of some of agricultural extension and education experts. Cronbach's alpha coefficient for different parts of the questionnaire was higher than 0.79 The research’s result showed that the average level of information seeking behavior (Average 2.81) was weak. The findings of regressions revealed that the amount of amount of time the work with computer, amount of time the work with internet Proficiency in English and GPA degree varieties explained 29 percent of the variation in information seeking behavior.

Purpose of this study was"Analysis the Role playing of Agricultural and Natural Resources Engineering Organization (ANREO) in the development of entrepreneurship among agricultural and natural resources sciences graduates in Khorramabad Township, Lorestan province.This qualitative research by Grounded theory (GT) in 2017. The statistical population in this research was the 24 members of this organization and through snowball sampling .Initially, the "mechanisms" were determined using the Glaser & Strauss patterns.Then, using the MAXQDA12 software, the main and secondary categories were extracted. The study continued on the basis of Strauss & Corbin's paradigmatic model. The results showed that this organization could be more successful if it performed the following: By introducing entrepreneurs to the relevant institutions for contracting for the sale of their products, introducing the Small low credit enterprises, Needs assessment of members in field of related entrepreneurship subjects, providing consultative services to Proper loan.

According the crucial importance of rural youth in agricultural jobs, the purpose of this research was to study the effects of barriers to rural youth tendency to engage in agricultural jobs in villages of Qasr-e Shirin, Kermanshah Province. All young aged between 15 to 29 in rural Qasr-e Shirin formed the statistical population of this descriptive correlation research (N=4230). The sample size was determined using Cochran formula and samples were selected by multistage cluster sampling method. The face and content validity of questionnaire was approved using the panel related faculty members. Pre-test and calculating theta coefecient was used to measure the reliability (θ= 0.83). Applying Mann-Whitney test showed tendency to agricultural jobs by young members of mobile social network, was significantly lower than the non-members. Result of ordinal regression analysis showed that three variables, including worthiness feeling in the village, age and tendency towards rural area had a positive impact on tendency of youth to engage in the agricultural sector. But the educational level had a negative impact. Using factor analysis method, put obstacles to rural youth tendency toward agricultural jobs summarized into six factors including low attractiveness of agriculture and the lack of adequate employment facilities, higher productivity of non-agricultural jobs and arduous of agricultural work, negative attitude to the village and possibility of obtaining a higher position in the city, not proper grounds for farming, lack of welfare, health and recreational facilities in villages and higher profitability of capital in city.

The entrepreneurship literature shows that entrepreneurial intention has important effect on entrepreneurship behavior. Therefore, it is important to identify factors influencing entrepreneurial intention. The main purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between self-efficacy belief and entrepreneurial intention with mediating role of entrepreneurial attitude. This study, in terms of purpose, is considered as an applied research and in terms of data collection is field study. The statistical population consisted of 2000 agricultural and natural resources students in 2013-2014 academic year, among which, 145 students were randomly selected based on Cochran's formula. Data collection tool was questionnaire, that’s face validity was confirmed by a panel of agricultural extension and education experts, and its reliability was confirmed through calculating ordinal alpha and composite reliability coefficients (α = 0.702 - 0.906 and C= 0.801 - 0.904). The results showed that there is a positive relationship between self-efficacy belief and entrepreneurial intention. Also, the mediating role of entrepreneurial attitude in the relationship between self efficacy belief and entrepreneurial intention was confirmed.

This descriptive-correlation study was comdmcted to investigate factors influencing the statistical information technology by agricultural and natural resources students of Nahavand Payame Noor University. the population study was 318, from whom 175 students were selected by stratified random sampling Technique. Data were collected by questionnaire That’s validity was confirmed by a panel of experts and its reliability was measured through ordinal alpha coefficient (α=0.86).According to findings, agricultural student had Medium attitudes towards the adoption of information technology in general. The result of path analysis showed that the variable of students’ attitudes towards using information technology had the most significant effect on the adoption of information technology (β= 0.56).
Furthermore, the other variables like: working experience with internet and computers (β= 0.53), Participate in training courses(β=0.46), students’ perception of easy application (β=0.39), usefulness (β=0.28) and their proficiency in English language (β= 0.20), had the most effects on the adoption of information technology and respectively ranked in other priorities.
It suggested that necessary condition to provid positive attitudes for the students and more use of information enhancing literacy and experience using of computers and other information in students through their participation in computer training classes and courses.

Preserving and developing agriculture and natural resources depend on a number of factors, including agricultural and environmental ethics. In evaluating ethical behavior, programs, and initiatives in the agricultural sector, various theories have been proposed of them the following three theories for their ability to communicate and applicability among users have been the most recognized: Utilitarianism, Virtue theory, and the theory of Right task-oriented. According to Islamic teachings and ethical recommendations towards natural resources and agriculture a need for developing a definition of a culturally based theory, was felt and in this regard, this study was designed. The Islamic scholars and thinkers’ viewpoints as well as scientific resources and ideas were reviewed, and based on the findings an ethical theory: “Human Liability towards Agriculture" was defined. The research methodologies were: comparative studies, archival research, and the Delphi technique. The participants in the three-round Delphi implementation were theologists and ethics experts as well as some agriculture faculty members familiar with the concepts of environmental ethics and moral principles. The results set up a list of 40 criteria to assess the environmental moral theories mentioned. The study also showed that each of the aforementioned theories of special abilities, but in other aspects of weak or no opinion, but the theory of “human liability” in most measures, enjoys a high rating. Statistical comparison between the four orbital theories shows that Human Liability Theory is the most significantly powerful to assess ethical behaviors toward agriculture and the environment. Based on the findings, it is recommended that the orbital theory of human liability to be used in the preparation of cultural attachment projects for agricultural development and environmental programs, and by experts and planners in the development of moral and judicial courts.

The main purpose of this study was to investigate relationship between emotional intelligence and entrepreneurship willingness among agricultural and natural resource students, of Agricultural and Natural Resources University of Zabol. The statistical population consisted of 2500 agricultural and natural resources students in 2013-2014 academic year from that 178 students were randomly selected. Data were collected through the application of an instrument consisted of two parts including; Wong and low Emotional Intelligence Inventory and entrepreneurship willingness measurement tool. The research instrument was given to the academic staff of the department of agricultural extension and education to test its content validity. Ordinal theta was calculated to measure reliability of research tools (θ= 0.82-0.88). Data were analyzed using SPSS21. Results showed that there were positive relationship between emotional intelligence and all its components (self emotion appraisal, utilization of emotion, other’s emotion appraisal, regulation of emotion) with entrepreneurship willingness among agricultural and natural resources students. Also, based on ordinal regression analysis, variables: other’s emotion appraisal (OEA) and utilization of emotion (UOE), were able to predict entrepreneurship willingness changes among agricultural and natural resources students.

Regarding the role of creativity and risk-taking in acquiring entrepreneurship skills and taking account the situation of higher education the role of agriculture in nation, independency, this research alims at investigation creativity and risk-taking among the first-year students of agriculture. The population of this study consists of 338 students. The sample drawn through simple random sampling includes 268 students. The obtained data was analyzed using SPSS through descriptive statistics, ANOVA and DUNCAN test. The result shows that the most of students have weak or very weak level of creativity. Moreover, there are significant differences among under study groups in terms of creativity (99%certain) and farness of thought (95%certain). However, there, is no significant among these groups in terms of risk-taking .In addition there is no difference between the students in 2010 and 2011 in terms of day dream, practicality, clearness of thought and creativity, However, these students are significantly different from those entered in 2013 in terms of the mentioned characteristics. Due to the low level of the under study characteristics in this research and the crucial role of agriculture in the nation’s development it can be recommended that the existing lesson plans and curriculum has to be substantially revised.

The main purpose of this study was to investigate relationship between self-esteem, problem solving styles and self-efficacy beliefs among agricultural and natural resource students, of the University of Zabol. The statistical population consisted of 3000 agricultural and natural resources students in 2013-2014 academic year from that, 210 students were randomly selected. Data were gathered through the application of an instrument was given to the academic staff of the department of Agricultural Extension and Education, University of Zabol to test its content validity. Ordinal theta was calculated to measure reliability of items of instrument (θ = 0.76 - 0.89). Results showed that there were a significant relationship between problem solving styles, self- esteem and self-efficacy beliefs. Ordinal Regression analysis indicated that self-esteem and some problem solving styles were significantly correlated with self-efficacy beliefs. Also, the ordinal regression analysis showed that self-esteem and problem solving styles were explained 57.2% of variance of student's self–efficacy beliefs

Education and research are two core components university of faculty. The purpose of this descriptive study was to investigate the relationship between education and research performance and their relationship with the class performance of students during the academic year of 2007 to 2011. The statistical population of the study consisted of all 60 faculty member who were working full time at the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zanjan. Secondary data of the university databases were used after securing their validity and accuracy. Analysis of data revealed that there are no meaningful correlation between research performance, teacning quality and class performance of students. But, research performance had a meaningful correlation with numbers of Ph.D and MSc. course taught by the faculty member. Mann Whitney test applied revealed that there was no significant difference between teaching quality and research pertformance of faculty members graduated from within the country universities and those universities abroad. However, faculty members with different employment status had meaningful differece teaching quality but, no meaningful differenc was found in their research performanc. Regression analysis showed that two variables: number of published journal articles (ISC), and number of the students were explained 16 percent of variance of faculty members’ teaching quality.

The main purpose of this study was to investigate relationship between learning styles and academic achievement among agricultural and natural resource students, of the University of Tehran. The statistical population consisted of 3859 agricultural and natural resources students in 2013-2014 academic year from that, 265 students were randomly selected. Data were gathered through the application of an instrument consisted of main two parts including Kolb Learning Style Inventory of 1985. The research instrument was given to the academic staff of the department of Agricultural Extension and Education, University of Tehran to test its content validity. Ordinal Theta coefficient was calculated to measure reliability of items of learning styles (θ= 0.77-0.86). During this study, non-parametric statistical methods were used and data were analyzed using SPSSwin15. Applying Kruskal–Wallis test revealed that students with different type of learning style were significantly different in academic achievement. In the study, majority of the students were found to have assimilator and diverger learning styles.

Skills and information presented by formal agricultural education for successful performance of agricultural graduates at work are insufficient; therefore one of the basic changes in educational programs of agricultural universities is entrepreneurship education program to be included in the curriculum. Entrepreneurship education should be designed based on the educational needs of students. Need assessment causes proportion of educational needs and educational programs. Accordingly، the purpose of this study was to determine educational needs of agricultural students in relation to entrepreneurship management as perceived by agricultural faculty members، as well as، by students of agricultural faculties in the West of Iran using Borich Need Assessment model and Quadrant Analysis. The statistical population consisted of agricultural faculty members and students of agricultural faculties in the West of Iran. Using ranking random sampling، 200 students and 50 faculty members were selected using krejcie and morgan table. This study is conducted in 2 phases، in the first phase of the study، educational needs of the students identified as perceived by them using questionnaire. Result revealed 56 educational topics with high priority were the educational needs. The top three needs were new idea creation of production and services، development of business plan and determination of several market sectors. In the second phase of the study، Quadrant Analysis was conducted in order to identify common needs as perceived by faculty members and students. Quadrant analysis revealed that most educational needs prioritized by students were also ranked high by faculty members.

Increase the number of female students in the universities, the role of entrepreneurial characteristics on the employment of graduates, as well as the importance of agriculture and consequences of disregarding its, has led to evaluation the entrepreneurial characteristics of girl agricultural students in this study. The population of this study randomized is 1780 and 336 female subjects were selected . After the test, correlation test and t, the results show that most students (apart from the characteristics of ambiguity tolerance) in the risk-taking, thought fluid, activism, internal control, need for achievement, challenge and visionary are not an ideal condition. There is a significant difference between male and female students in characteristics: activism, need for achievement, tolerance for ambiguity, challenge, visionary and entrepreneurship. But there is a significant difference between male and female students in the characteristics: thought fluid, internal control and risk-taking. In terms of individual characteristics, there is a significant relationship between the type of diploma and risk-taking, need for achievement, thought fluid, ambiguity tolerance and entrepreneurship. But the father’s job is not relationship with any of the characteristics except risk-taking. There is relationship between skill and experience in business, tolerance for ambiguity, Tendency to start business relationship. There is no significant difference in any of the entrepreneurship features between first year and fourth year students. These results show that the need to plan for increasing entrepreneurial characteristics of women in higher education due to the strategic role of agriculture in independence and welfare.

The purpose of this study was to examine the affective social factors in promoting innovation management of agricultural and rural cooperatives of Tehran province. This research was a descriptive- correlation type and the total population of this study were 695 managers and board members of agricultural and rural cooperatives in Tehran province. Based on the Cochran formula, 128 respondents were selected through proportional random sampling method. Validity of questionnaire was confirmed by the experts in this field. Reliability of questionnaire was measured by Cronbach alpha and it was determined to be between 0.87- 0.98. Analysis of data was done by SPSS software version 16. The result of study showed that the impact of social factors on enhancing innovation management was in medium range. Results of stepwise multiple regression analysis indicated that increasing cooperation and interaction between managers and members of cooperative about innovation¸ beliefs of members about innovation in cooperative and interaction between agricultural cooperatives to exchange their experiences in the field of innovation explained 55.2 percent of the variation in perception of respondents about promoting innovation management in agricultural and rural cooperatives.