M. Mazhari; Kh. Parsapoor
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AbstractAccording to official statistics, domestic production of edible oils provides only less than 10 percent of the country's consumption needs, and therefore every year a significant amount of crude and prepared edible oils and fats is imported to the country spending a considerable amount of foreign ...
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AbstractAccording to official statistics, domestic production of edible oils provides only less than 10 percent of the country's consumption needs, and therefore every year a significant amount of crude and prepared edible oils and fats is imported to the country spending a considerable amount of foreign exchange. Over the past years rapeseed, as a new product, has been implemented by a limited number of farmers in Khorasan Razavi province. Since the authorities seek to achieve self-sufficiency in edible oils, more attention should be paid to developing oilseeds cultivation, especially rapeseed due to its high percentage of oil and its high quality. In this study, factors that influence the adoption of rapeseed cultivation were determined using Logit model. The study conducted in Khorasan Razavi province in 2008. Using two-stage random sampling, 300 farmers were selected for this study. It is concluded that the variables including area of irrigated cultivation, the extent at which farmers implement advisors ‘ recommendations, communication with farmers who cultivate rapeseed, influence of cultivating rapeseed on Grain yield and agricultural income have a significant contribution to rapeseed cultivation.
M. Tabaraee; Kh. Parsapoor; S. Abed
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AbstractThe purpose of this study is investigating factors affect on probability of Willingness to pay sugar beet farmers for taking of agricultural extension services. logit model was used for cross sectional data in 2009 between 150 sugar beet farmers that were selected by random sampling in the city ...
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AbstractThe purpose of this study is investigating factors affect on probability of Willingness to pay sugar beet farmers for taking of agricultural extension services. logit model was used for cross sectional data in 2009 between 150 sugar beet farmers that were selected by random sampling in the city of Mashhad. In addition, tobit model was used to analyse factors affecting on Willingness to pay beet farmers for taking of agricultural extension services. Results of both model showed that age, experience in sugar beet cultivation and household size have negative and significant effect and education, cultivated area, yield, farm ownership, net revenue of sugar beet, need to extension services and concurrence of extension services have positive and significant effect on probability of Willingness to pay for agricultural extension services. comparing aggregate elasticity among different variables in tobit model showed that need to extension services has the maximum effect in increasing and farmer, s age has the maximum effect in decreasing Willingness to pay for taking of agricultural extention services respectively. According to results, implementation of semiprivate extension between great farmers, Forming associations and cooperatives for yeomen to pay extension costs as a group, Making diversity in the type and method of offering extension service based on age, experience and education suggested.