Sefatollah Rahmani; Saeid Yazdani; Aboalfazl Mahmoudi; Mohsen Shoukatfadaei; Ali Souri
Volume 6, 23(2) , September 2016, , Pages 26-13
Abstract
The water shortage in most countries has caused farmers to use modern methods instead of traditional irrigation methods, have greater control over water consumption. Among the programs implemented in order to reduce water consumption and increase its productivity in the agricultural sector, is the use ...
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The water shortage in most countries has caused farmers to use modern methods instead of traditional irrigation methods, have greater control over water consumption. Among the programs implemented in order to reduce water consumption and increase its productivity in the agricultural sector, is the use of pressurized irrigation method. This study aimed to determine the factors affecting the adoption and development of pressurized irrigation in Ardabil province, the required collected data in the form of questionnaires from farmers for crop year 2015-2016 and using logit regression model. The results indicate that the labor costs of water, literacy, education, income, Second career farmers, cultivation, satisfaction with administrative, expertise and credibility services, have positive effectiveness, and history of agricultural activity, product number, cost of water consumption implementation of irrigation systems, and new irrigation cultivation have negative effect on the acceptance and development of pressurized irrigation cultivation. The average marginal effect factors on the development of pressurized irrigation is 0. 345 The ultimate effect of education, water consumption volume and satisfaction with banking and administrative services on pressurized irrigation development is estimated more than other factors.
Shamsi Amiyan; Zahra Amiri; Mohammad Kavoosi-Kalashami; Siyamak Gheibi
Volume 6, 23(2) , September 2016, , Pages 36-27
Abstract
With growing the health concerns,as well as some arisen environmental problems have proved the importance of the organic agriculture and safe food production valid. The objective of the present study was to evaluate the factors influencing urban consumers’ willingness to pay for green chicken meat ...
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With growing the health concerns,as well as some arisen environmental problems have proved the importance of the organic agriculture and safe food production valid. The objective of the present study was to evaluate the factors influencing urban consumers’ willingness to pay for green chicken meat in Urmia city in 2015. The study’s population consisted of all Urmia citizens, from whom a sample of 283 individuals were selected using the data from the pretest and Mitchel and Carson’s sampling method. This study is practical (applied research) and it is also descriptive and correlational. The data were collected by field research via questionnaire. The content and face validity of the research tools were confirmed by university professors and experts in the field and Cronbach’s Alpha (0. 83) was used to confirm the reliability of the questionnaire. For data analysis, SPSS v. 20, Microsoft Office EXCEL 2010, SHAZAM and STATA software packages were used. The results of Logit and Tobit model indicated 25. 85 and 21. 7 percent higher consumers’ willingness to pay for each kilogram of green chicken as compared to industrial chicken. Variables of chicken consumption per week, attitude toward the general component of shopping, the component of healthy shopping and awareness of the danger of antibiotics were significant at the one percent level. For the purpose of familiarization and acculturalization regarding the consumption of green products, it is necessary to pay more attention to food security and to increase public knowledge and awareness of purchasing these products by media and virtual advertisements and using promotional brochures and training workshops.
