Sefatollah Rahmani; Saeid Yazdani; Aboalfazl Mahmoudi; Mohsen Shoukatfadaei; Ali Souri
Volume 6, 23(2) , September 2016, Pages 26-13
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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 ...
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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
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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 ...
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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.
Hadi Ghaffari; Ali Younessi; Atena Abedini
Volume 6, 23(2) , September 2016, Pages 54-37
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One of the main challenges facing agricultural development in rural areas is the lack of efficient use of the factors of production, particularly land and water with the wisdom and the distribution of land belonging to each of the beneficiaries to be associated. To solve this challenge in different countries ...
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One of the main challenges facing agricultural development in rural areas is the lack of efficient use of the factors of production, particularly land and water with the wisdom and the distribution of land belonging to each of the beneficiaries to be associated. To solve this challenge in different countries land consolidation policies as a logical and workable solutions have been used. The purpose of this study is to check the impact of the land consolidation on Shazand city agricultural productivity. The type of research is practical and the method used is descriptive – analytical and for collecting data the library and field methods (questionnaires and interviews) were used. Due to the limited number of villages where the land consolidation project has done, two villages by the name of Homriyan and Mohajerane Khak were selected. To analyze data, statistical methods of Wilcaxon nonparametric test, Friedman test, Chi-square test, Kolmogorov–Smirnov test, and paired and independent t-test are used. The results show that there are significant differences in the number of pieces of land of each beneficiary, the area under cultivation, wheat and barley operation, the area under pressurized irrigation systems, the cost of machinery to plow, plot layout, the cost of land preparation, planting costs, the use of machines for fertilizer and seeding, harvesting and transportation, the use of pesticides and workers as well as the amount of water consumption in the period before and after the land consolidation project. All these could be able to make important changes in the productivity of factors of production.
Maryam Mousivand; Ali Safaei Shakib; Pouria Ataei; Babak Abdolmaleki
Volume 6, 23(2) , September 2016, Pages 64-55
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The main aim of this study is to analyze effect of psychological capital components on identifying entrepreneurial opportunities of Agriculture Jahad Organization staffs of Hamedan Province. Sample size was 245 staffs that selected through simple random sampling method. The data were obtained through ...
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The main aim of this study is to analyze effect of psychological capital components on identifying entrepreneurial opportunities of Agriculture Jahad Organization staffs of Hamedan Province. Sample size was 245 staffs that selected through simple random sampling method. The data were obtained through two questionnaires of psychological capital (Luthans et al., 2007) and entrepreneurial opportunities (Puhakka, 2010). Face validity of the questionnaire was obtained through an experts’ panel and reliability was obtained through pilot testing and calculating Cronbach's alpha (psychological capital= 0.88, entrepreneurial opportunities= 0.91). Finding’s showed that psychological capital and entrepreneurial opportunities of Agriculture Jahad Organization staffs respectively was low to medium and medium. The results indicate a significant positive relationship (r= 0.766) between psychological capital and distinguish entrepreneurial opportunities (p= 0/001). The variables of self-efficiency, hope, resilience and optimism respectively have had most effect on identifying entrepreneurial opportunities. Finally, psychological capital dimensions were significant predictors to recognize entrepreneurial opportunities (p> 0.01).
Roya Eshraghi Samani; Monireh Alizadeh; Marjan Vahedi
Volume 6, 23(2) , September 2016, Pages 72-65
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The current study is a descriptive survey study conducted to investigat challenges of developing organic agriculture in Ilam Province from the viewpoint of experts of agricultural jihad. Statistical population of the study included 264 experts of agricultural jihad in Ilam Province. Through Morgan ...
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The current study is a descriptive survey study conducted to investigat challenges of developing organic agriculture in Ilam Province from the viewpoint of experts of agricultural jihad. Statistical population of the study included 264 experts of agricultural jihad in Ilam Province. Through Morgan and Takman table sample size was estimated to be 150 people. Sampling was also carried out through stratified random sampling method with appropriate assignment. Research instrument was a researcher made questionnaire which face and content validities were confirmed by respective professors’ judgments. In addition reliability of this instrument was determined through calculating Cronbach alpha coefficient (0.91). Data analysis was carried out through utilizing SPSS software version 20 using both descriptive statistics and inferential statistics of factor analysis. Results of factor analysis led to identify five factors including extension -educational challenges, economic challenges, management challenges, psycho-cultural challenges, and supportive challenges that explain 75.08 percent of the variance. Extension -educational challenges as the first factor with the special value of 2. 631 explains the largest portion (21.62 percent) and support challenges with special value of 1.306 explains the smallest portion (10. 88 percent) of the total variance.
Mohsen Tarafdar; Mohammad Mehdi Askari; Korion Grigoorian
Volume 6, 23(2) , September 2016, Pages 88-73
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The shortage of irrigation water is one of the most important problems which Iran is facing it. Irrigation water pricing is one of the economic approaches to manage it and using efficiently. This paper's purpose is to evaluate the effect of irrigation water price induction on productivity of agriculture ...
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The shortage of irrigation water is one of the most important problems which Iran is facing it. Irrigation water pricing is one of the economic approaches to manage it and using efficiently. This paper's purpose is to evaluate the effect of irrigation water price induction on productivity of agriculture section in Iran (case: Kashan). This study is an application –development in terms of objective and is a post- event in terms of the study design and descriptive in terms of conclusion. The paper's results show that during study period (2006- 2010), irrigation water price has risen in kashan region. But this leads not only to increase average cultivated land per a farmer, but also, to increase crops and garden products monetary productivity. It means that Iranian government can use irrigation water price induction as a tool for increasing productivity in agriculture section in Iran. In addition, crops and garden products have different productivity. Results also show that dill and apricot have the highest productivity in among all crops and garden product in the region respectively.
Saeid Yazdani; Aboalfazl Mahmoodi; GholamReza Yavari; GholamReza Yavari; MohammadReza Nazari; Mehrnoosh Mirzaei
Volume 6, 23(2) , September 2016, Pages 98-89
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Due to increasing demand and supply gap of water and reclamation plan and balance of groundwater resources by the Department of Energy It is expected to reduce water resources , regardless of the agricultural sector , Excessive pressure on the sector in the future through rations and water from reallocation ...
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Due to increasing demand and supply gap of water and reclamation plan and balance of groundwater resources by the Department of Energy It is expected to reduce water resources , regardless of the agricultural sector , Excessive pressure on the sector in the future through rations and water from reallocation of resources to sectors with higher priority enters this section. In this study, the effects of In this study, the economic effects of nonprice policy reduced water supply on the components of the agricultural sector in the province of Qazvin According to the data of the crop year 93-92 and by developing a positive mathematical programming model is investigated. The results showed that , with the policy of reduce water availability , crop patterns are highly impressed And more driven towards products that make water use more than economic efficiency. With increasing restrictions on water resources, increased economic efficiency water This suggests that the increasing scarcity of water resources and the signal value to agricultural producers To allocate water more economically valuable products in terms of lack of water resources.
