Designing a sustainable system of production of canola in Qazvin Province using AMOS

Subject Areas : Agroecology Journal

Somayeh Jangchi Kashani ^{1 *} , Seyyed Jamaladdein Farajollah Hosseini ² , Mehdi MirDamadi ³

1 - Ph.D. Agricultural DevelopmentDepartment Agricultural Extension and Education Islamic Azad University Science and Research Branch Tehran, Iran
2 - Associate Professor Department of Agricultural Extension and Education Science and Research Branch Islamic Azad University Tehran, Iran
3 - Associate Professor Department of Agricultural Development Science and Research Branch Islamic Azad University Tehran, Iran

Received: 2014-08-03 Accepted : 2014-12-23 Published : 2015-01-21

Keywords: value added, Agricultural Development, Sustainable production, biological control techniques, Input, system efficient production,

Abstract :

Uncontrolled use of production inputs to improve crop yield and environment damage has gained the attentions about importance of sustainable production systems in addition to natural resources protection and its duration in recent decades. The current study aimed to designing of sustainable system patterns of rapeseed production in Qazvin Province. To this purpose, 242 persons out of 987 rapeseed farmers were selected by Cochran formula in random. Information required was collected by questionnaire and random sampling. Collected data were analyzed using AMOS, SPSS software, statistically. Correlation analysis and structural equations showed that reducing of  middlemen through rapeseed purchase by cooperative companies, insurance of agricultural products, prices fixation and financial support from the government to increase the added value, positive vision and belief of rapeseed producers, participation of the private sector, using of biological control techniques, reduction of product costs and support of production inputs for qualitative rapeseed production, movie documentary films direction on practical training in using of natural inputs, creating an efficient information system to rapeseed farmers play the main role in sustainability of producing.

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