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  1 - Analysis of Communicative Factors Affecting in Application of Sustainable Rice Farming Practices among Paddy Farmers of Mazandaran Province
  Laleh Salehi Ahmad Rezvanfar Seyed Hamid Movahed Mohammadi Seyed Mahmood Hosseini
  10.5455/ijamd.164538
  The main purpose of this study was to analyze of communicative factors affecting in application of Sustainable Rice Farming Practices among paddy farmers of Mazandaran province. The statistical population of consisted of paddy farmers of Mazandaran province (N= 208839). More

  The main purpose of this study was to analyze of communicative factors affecting in application of Sustainable Rice Farming Practices among paddy farmers of Mazandaran province. The statistical population of consisted of paddy farmers of Mazandaran province (N= 208839). According to Cochran formula, a sample of 240 farmers was selected through cluster sampling method. To collect data, a questionnaire was designed. Reliability of the questionnaire was measured by computing Cronbach’s alpha (α ≥0/7) and its validity was approved by a panel of expert. Factor analysis revealed that communicative factors affecting in application of Sustainable Rice Farming Practices were four factors including: organizational communication, modern communication, local interpersonal communication and external interpersonal communication, respectively according to their importance. These factors explained 67.92 percent of the total variance. Manuscript profile
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  2 - بررسی عوامل موثر بر مدیریت ریسک در بین زنان برنجکار شهرستان ساری، ایران
  Mehdi Charmchian Langerodi
  پژوهش حاضر با هدف شناسایی عوامل موثر در مدیریت ریسک در بین زنان برنجکار شهرستان ساری انجام شد. جامعه آماری تحقیق 1677نفر از زنان برنجکار شهرستان ساری می­باشند. نمونه­­گیری تصادفی طبقه­ای در این مطالعه به کاربرده شد و 248 نفراز زنان برنجکار انتخاب شدند. ت More

  پژوهش حاضر با هدف شناسایی عوامل موثر در مدیریت ریسک در بین زنان برنجکار شهرستان ساری انجام شد. جامعه آماری تحقیق 1677نفر از زنان برنجکار شهرستان ساری می­باشند. نمونه­­گیری تصادفی طبقه­ای در این مطالعه به کاربرده شد و 248 نفراز زنان برنجکار انتخاب شدند. تجزیه و تحلیل داده­ها در دو بخش آمار توصیفی و استنباطی با استفاده از نرم­افزار SPSSWin16 انجام شد. آلفا کرونباخ و تتای ترتیبی سوالات پرسشنامه به ترتیب 0/84 و 0/89 بدست آمد. زنان برنجکار بیشتر از روشهایی مانند میزان مشاوره با کارشناسان کشاورزی، میزان آگاهی زنان از زمان کاشت و برداشت مناسب و میزان انجام عملیات (مانند کاشت) برنجکاری مشارکتی با دیگران برای مدیریت ریسک استفاده می­نمایند. توانمندسازی مدیریت ریسک در بین زنان برنجکار شهرستان ساری از عناصر مختلف تاثیر می­ پذیرد که 29/3 درصد واریانس مدیریت ریسک توسط سه عامل میزان مشکلات مالی در امور مربوط به برنجکاری، سطح تحصیلات زن برنجکار و منبع وام­گیری تبیین می­شود. Manuscript profile
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  3 - A Study on Knowledge of Farmers on Sustainable Farming Based on Environmental Preservation
  aliasghar Saghafi nasim einy masoumeh Issazadeh
  Sustainability of production is one of the serious issues that have attracted the attention of many researchers in recent years. Assessing the level of farmers' knowledge about sustainable agriculture is a determining factor in the sustainability of production units.Acc More

  Sustainability of production is one of the serious issues that have attracted the attention of many researchers in recent years. Assessing the level of farmers' knowledge about sustainable agriculture is a determining factor in the sustainability of production units.Accordingly, in order to assess the level of knowledge and attitude of sustainable agriculture among paddy farmers, A sample size study was selected by multivariate sampling method of 241 paddy farmers.A panel of experts, including experts from the Agricultural Jihad Organization, was used to determine the validity.In order to evaluate the reliability criterion, was used Cronbach's alpha coefficient which was calculated for the Knowledge Scale (0.79) and for the Attitude Scale (0.76).The results showed that the level of knowledge and insight of sustainable agriculture was good among farmers. The results showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between the variables of age, total land area, area under rice cultivation, annual salary of paddy cultivation and annual income with agricultural knowledge at the level of 99%.However, there was no significant relationship between the variables of number of family members, level of education, number of plots of land and average rice yield with sustainable agricultural knowledge.Also, there was a positive and significant relationship between the variables of family number and education with sustainable agricultural attitude at 95% level.Also, there was no significant relationship between the variables of age, agricultural activity history, rice cultivation history, and total agricultural land area, area under rice cultivation, number of agricultural lands, paddy salary and annual income with attitude towards sustainable agriculture.  Manuscript profile