Motivation to Work at Rural Areas as perceived by Agricultural graduates of Shiraz University

The aim of this study was to investigate factors affecting motivation of agricultural graduates to work in the rural areas. A survey was conducted among including 300 agricultural graduates from Shiraz University in 2013, who 80 people were selected using random sampling. Data were collected through a semi-structured questionnaire which its face validity was confirmed by experts. Also, the questionnaires
were subjected to reliability test. α=0.8 to 0.85 were the values found for the Cronbach Alpha’s coefficients. The results of Mann-Witney U- test revealed that there was a significant difference between motivation of male and female to work in the rural areas. Moreover, the results of Kruskal-Wallis test showed that there were significant differences between motivations of graduates from different fields of agricultural study to work in the rural areas.