Investigation of Training Needs to Entrepreneurship Development in Agricultural Production Cooperatives

Training as one of the effective factors in human resource development has beenemphasized in Iran’s 1404 Vision Documents. In agricultural production cooperatives,training is an effective factor to entrepreneurship development. The purpose of thisresearch is evaluating and classifying trainings needed by agricultural productioncooperatives to develop their entrepreneurship. statistical population of this appliedresearch included 492 managing directors’ of agricultural production cooperativesoperating in Khuzestan province, of which 101 cooperatives wise selected randomly,using a multistage selection. Data was collected using a questionnaire that its validitywas confirmed by a panel of experts and its reliability was obtained using Cranach›salpha coefficient (α = 0.82). Results showed that, five faction could explain of about83.99 percent of training needs in development entrepreneurship in agriculturalcooperatives. These factors include regulation training (23.42 %), risk managementtraining (21.46 percent), creativity training (18.57 %), marketing training (12.83 %),training for registering new technology, and moral ownership (7.68 %).