Agricultural Economics
Z. Zarei Dastgerdi; Kh. Kalantari; A. Asadi
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The agricultural sector in developing countries plays an important role in promoting national development and rational policy making and strategic planning to advance the sustainable development of this sector are of main concerns of the relevant institutional actors. In this regard, the current research ...
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The agricultural sector in developing countries plays an important role in promoting national development and rational policy making and strategic planning to advance the sustainable development of this sector are of main concerns of the relevant institutional actors. In this regard, the current research was conducted with the aim of identifying scenarios of sustainable agricultural development in the catchment area of Zayandeh River in Isfahan province. The present research was applied, of descriptive-survey type. The statistical population was experts related to agricultural development in the province. To collect data, library sources, questionnaires and interviews were used. Delphi method and interviews with elites and executives were used to identify the primary components and drivers effective on the sustainable development of agriculture in the Zayandeh River watershed of Isfahan province. The snowball technique was used to select the experts. Finally, 8 key drivers were identified and separated in order to explain the research variables in a strategic format. Based on this, in the section related to the expression of research priorities in two direct and indirect modes, these 8 key factors have been repeated in different priorities. Questionnaires were distributed among 25 experts. In this study, five plausible scenarios were identified for forecasting the future of sustainable agricultural development by considering potential outcomes based on key factors and their similarities or differences across the categories of favorable, static, and critical scenarios. Based on their total scores, which range from 85 to 109, two scenarios were identified as the most likely: one favorable scenario and one critical scenario.
A. Asadi; A. Karimi; F. Karami
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The main objective of present study was Identification of Application Contexts of Information Technology by educators of applied science and technology institutes in agriculture and natural resources filed. the study was discriptive – corralation research that carried out through survay method. statistical ...
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The main objective of present study was Identification of Application Contexts of Information Technology by educators of applied science and technology institutes in agriculture and natural resources filed. the study was discriptive – corralation research that carried out through survay method. statistical population of study consisted of (N=2569) educators of applied science and technology institutes in agriculture and natural resources fild in iran. multi steps samplin was employed and 138 members of educators selected from six regions of country. Questionnaire was employed for data collection. Questionnaire validation verified by the group of experts and professors of department of agricultural education and extension of Tehran university. A pilot study with the 30 numbers of questionnaire was conducted to determine the reliability of research tools, and was estimated the Cronbochs alpha that different parts of questionnaire were suitable for study. The collected data were analyzed by the SPSS software. The results of correlation showed that there was significant and positive correlation between the number of IT application contexts by instructors with computer familiarity and its skills, internet familiarity and its skills, English language skills, advantages of using of IT, the average use of internet and the average use of computer at level of 0.95 and it had significant and positive correlation with the numbers of review articles and the numbers of scientific papers at 0.99 level. To identify the most important of IT application contexts by educators in agricultural and natural resources applied science and technology institutes, the R-Type Factor Analysis was employed. Results indicated the variables were categorized in four factors include of: development of intra and inter organization relations, to making easy the educational process. Increasing of the educators professional skills, and facilitation of the organization process. These four factors estimated about 72 percent of variances of IT application contexts by educators of applied science and technology institutes in agriculture and natural resources fild.
Kh. Kalantari; A. Asadi; H. Shabanali Fami; A. Arabiun
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Sustainability of wheat farming systems depends on various ecological, economic and social factors. Identifying these factors can be most effective to formulating sustainable agricultural analysis policies and strategies. According to this, the purpose of this paper is to identify sustainability factors ...
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Sustainability of wheat farming systems depends on various ecological, economic and social factors. Identifying these factors can be most effective to formulating sustainable agricultural analysis policies and strategies. According to this, the purpose of this paper is to identify sustainability factors of wheat cultivation system in Fars province. Statistical population of this research includes all wheat farmers of Fars province. Sample was selected by using multi stage random sampling method and questionnaire was used for data gathering. Validity of questionnaire confirmed by selected experts and researchers of agricultural development, and Coronbach Alpha coefficient (0.77 to 0.94) was used to confirm its reliability. According to descriptive finding of the study on average irrigated farm land for each landholder was 10.29 ha, With 6.23 ha, allocated to wheat cultivation, annually. On average production per hectare were 6.84 ton and average annual income of each wheat farmer was 120 million Rails. From the view point of landholding system 30.34 percent of the farmers are small landholding. About 88.57 percent of farmers were owner of the farm, 22.65 percent have continuous in cultivation and 67.52 percent have rotational farming in wheat cropping. In total 80.3 percent of farmers do not have sufficient professitional knowledge and 90 percent of them do not enjoy an appropriate agricultural support services. In respect of social participation, 55.6 percent of them are in intermediate level and 67.5 percent do not have sufficient satisfaction from agricultural activities. The results of factor analysis showed that, 5 factors of ecological sustainable cultivation activities, Agricultural extension service, social and participation situation and economic factor explained 72.56 percent of sustainability of wheat cultivation system in Fars province
Sh. Sarvaramini; A. Asadi; Kh. Kalantari
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The general purpose of this research was survey and recognizes the positive and negative effects of industrial site of Eshtehard rural development in eshtehard region Statistical populations were two groups’ namely rural people and master of industrial area. The size of the sample was 150 villagers ...
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The general purpose of this research was survey and recognizes the positive and negative effects of industrial site of Eshtehard rural development in eshtehard region Statistical populations were two groups’ namely rural people and master of industrial area. The size of the sample was 150 villagers and 70 masters of industrial units. (Using stratified proportionate random sampeling technique and based on cocran’s sampeling methodology) The study was carried out with field research approach and the validity of research tool was obtained by idea of experts and for reliability of questionnaires a pilot test was conducted. Cronbach’ Alpha coefficient of higher than 0.7 showed that research tool is reliable.. Descriptive and inferential statistics such as frequency, percentage, mean, CV, factor analysis and Mann-Whitney Tests were used to data analysis. The result of factor analysis showed that in village area, five factors named as social impacts, economic impacts, physical impacts, agricultural impacts and environmental impacts explained 65.98% of variance of positive effects of industrial area. About negative effects of industrial area, four factors named as social impacts, economic impacts, agricultural impacts and environmental impacts explained 63.159% of total variance. Moreover with use of mann-whitney result there are difference between two groups of rural people and master of industrial area.
J. Ghasemi; A. Asadi
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AbstractThe purpose of this descriptive– survey research was to analyze effective factors on entrepreneurial mentality of graduate students of University College of Agriculture & Natural Resources, the University of Tehran. The statistical population of the study consisted of 686 persons of ...
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AbstractThe purpose of this descriptive– survey research was to analyze effective factors on entrepreneurial mentality of graduate students of University College of Agriculture & Natural Resources, the University of Tehran. The statistical population of the study consisted of 686 persons of graduate students (M.Sc. & PhD levels), out of which 97 people determined as sample using Cochran Formula and proportionate stratified sampling technique. The sample size was later increased to 150 people for enhancing precision of the study. A questionnaire was the main tool of study. The validity of the questionnaire was approved by the judgment of a panel of faculty members of the Department of Agricultural Extension Education who were assumed here as experts. In order to measure the reliability of the questionnaire, Cronbach Alpha coefficients were calculated for the main scales of the questionnaire which ranged from 0.79 to 0.93 indicating that the tool of study is reliable. The data were analyzed by SPSS-win software. To identify effective factors on entrepreneurial mentality of graduate students, R-type factor analysis was used. The results showed that educational, psychological, communicational and university factors extracted from factor analysis explained 50.46 percent of variance.
A. Asadi; Kh. Kalantari; A. Ansari Ardali; M. Rahimian; Y. Mohammadi
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AbstractThe main purpose of this research was the analysis of economic effects of fish farming pools establishment in Ardal county of Chaharemahal and Bakhtiyari province. This research was a sort of survey search measure and a questionnaire was compiled for collecting of data. Statistical society of ...
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AbstractThe main purpose of this research was the analysis of economic effects of fish farming pools establishment in Ardal county of Chaharemahal and Bakhtiyari province. This research was a sort of survey search measure and a questionnaire was compiled for collecting of data. Statistical society of this study was included of 171 fish farming units that 75 units were chosen by random sampling method. The results showed that all of producers are men and about 30 percents of them are illiterate. Also according to results of study, development of export and increasing of Farmers income is the most important economic effect of fish Farming establishment. Finally the results of factor analysis revealed that the economic effects were classified into 7 factors that these factors respectively to their importance were included of: improvement of investment in agricultural and non-agricultural section, improvement of employment situation, improvement of export, improvement of income, improvement of substructure and tourism attraction, improvement of demand and innovation expansion. In total, improvement of investment in the agricultural and non-agricultural section was recognized as the most important economic effect of the fish farming pools establishment.
