Attitudes of fatteners concerning the factors affecting the development of male calf fattening units in Guilan province

The present descriptive-survey research was conducted to investigate attitudes of fatteners about the factors affecting the development of male calf fattening units in Guilan province. The data of the present study were collected through a questionnaire and its validity was controlled by 10 professors and its reliability was obtained by calculating the Cronbach's coefficient of 0.92. The study population of fatteners included 52 active fattening units in Guilan province which were census. This research was conducted in two separate sections. The purpose of the first part was to be aware of the current situation of fattening in the province that the results showed that the average technical efficiency using the variable and constant efficiency approach to the scale is equal to 0.961 and 0.941, respectively, which show the high production efficiency of fattening units in Guilan province and also fatteners' satisfaction with continuing their work was moderate. The second part of the study sought to examine the attitude of fatteners about the factors affecting the development of male calf fattening units in Guilan province, which examined the attitude of fatteners about social, economic, fattening cooperatives, structure, and presentation of educational-extension courses. The results showed that from the point of view of fatteners, indicators of economic, structural, and participation in educational-extension courses have a significant impact on fattening and explain about 95% of its changes.