جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « North Khorasan » در نشریات گروه « علوم ترویج »

This research was done with the aim of investigating factors affecting the identification of entrepreneurial opportunities among the Herbal plant producers in North Khorasan province. The statistical population was all the herbal plant producers of North Khorasan province in 2019. Out of them, 209 farmers were selected by convenient sampling method. The main instrument for data collection was a questionnaire whose validity was evaluated by panel of experts, and its reliability was confirmed using Cronbach’s alpha. The results of reliability evaluations revealed that the alpha coefficients for all constructs are greater than 0.7. Data were analyzed using SPSS25.The results of Freidman test regarding factors affecting the identification of entrepreneurial opportunities indicated that three factors entrepreneurial self-efficacy, social networking, and social capital had the greatest importance in identifying entrepreneurial opportunities, respectively. According to the results of the Mann-whitney test, people with a previous cultivation experience ofherbal plants have a higher self-image mean tan the others. Also, people who participated in entrepreneurial courses had great self-image. It should be mentioned that academic graduates had higher self-monitoring, self-image, social capital, social network, and entrepreneurial self-efficacy than the farmers with no academic degrees. Plus, the results obtained from the sign test revealed that only in the two structures of self-monitoring and social capital individuals often have a lower average mean than the population average mean. Moreover, the results of Pearson correlation coefficient showed significant and positive correlations among age and three variables prior knowledge, identifying entrepreneurial opportunities, and entrepreneurial consciousness.

Rural development is one of the most important issues in any society, especially in developing societies. As entrepreneurship plays an important role in improving the economic and living conditions of villagers by creating new employment opportunities and thereby generating income, the development of the villages has found a broader connection with the concept of entrepreneurship and in particular agricultural entrepreneurship than in Past. The aim of this study was therefore to examine the effects of four factors such as innovation, production, financial resources and the market on rural development through the mediating role of agricultural entrepreneurship among 42 exemplary entrepreneurs in the province of North Khorasan. The sample size also corresponds to the community size. The data collection tool was a standard questionnaire developed by Yilmaz et al. For statistical analysis of the data, the SPSS software and the bootstrap method were used in Macro Preacher and Hayes (2008) to test indirect effects. The results showed that agricultural entrepreneurship has a positive and significant impact on rural development and that there is a direct link between innovation, production, financial resources and market factors with rural development. Indirect hypotheses were examined using the macro step boot method, which confirmed all indirect hypotheses. Overall, the results show that the four factors of production innovation, production factors, financial resources and the production market have a direct and indirect influence (rural entrepreneurship) on rural development.

The main purpose of this paper is to identify the challenges and barriers of entrepreneurship development in the conversion industry of horticultural products in North Khorasan Province and prioritize those barriers and finally provide solutions to the barriers to the development of this industry. For this purpose, the required information was obtained through face-to-face interviews and completed a questionnaire with 20 managers and experts from Jihad-e-Agriculture Organization, Department of Industry, Mine, Trade, Chamber of Commerce and Agricultural Bank of North Khorasan Province. The results show that the barriers to financing in the first place are the factors affecting the transformation industries of North Khorasan province, after which the market-related bottlenecks are ranked second, the lack of strategic planning in the gardening products conversion industry is ranked third, paperwork In the process of issuing licenses (bureaucratic system) and the weakness of the private sector management system and the cooperative of conversion units, they are ranked fourth in the fourth place, and the weakness of coordination between government agencies is in the fifth position. Therefore, it is proposed to pay a loan with easier conditions and a longer repayment period Will happen. It also, reduces the creation of a single window between organizations for licensing, costs, and the timing of the start-up of workshops and conversion industries, and the implementation of focused marketing programs to engage in regional and cross-border markets and seasonal markets will help solve the problem market bottlenecks.