Agricultural Extension and Education Research: 4 (3)

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1 - Factor Analysis of the Effective Factors on Extension and Development of Agricultural Biotechnology Commercialization from Researchers of Research Centers Perspective
Vahideh Birjandi S. mahmoud Hosseini Mohammad Chizari Iraj Malek Mohammadi

Agricultural biotechnology has an important role in food security, biodiversity protection, decreasing of Agriculture's environmental effects, decreasing of changing climate's effects, eliminating of poverty and hunger. Although, research institutes must commercialize t More

Agricultural biotechnology has an important role in food security, biodiversity protection, decreasing of Agriculture's environmental effects, decreasing of changing climate's effects, eliminating of poverty and hunger. Although, research institutes must commercialize their new biotechnology's research findings via collaborating with industry, and convert to profitable products for markets, most of them just publishing in scientific journals and aren’t usable for consumers. So, the major purpose of this study was to identify and sort the effective factors on extension and development of agricultural biotechnology commercialization from researchers of research centers perspective. The sample size for the study was 170 biotechnology researchers engaged in governmental agricultural research institutions of Iran and data collected by using a questionnaire. The results of exploratory factor analysis in SPSSWin16 were shown that 53.42% of the variance in the extension and development of agricultural biotechnology commercialization could be explained by five factors including infrastructure, policy, economic, extension-information, and education-human resources Manuscript profile

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2 - Identifying Barriers to Commercialization of Researches in Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO) Using Grounded Theory
Bahman Khosravipour Soheil Nosrati Jafar Yaghoubi

Commercialization of research and knowledge is an inevitable activity to offset the cost of research and development (R&D) in the public and private research centers of the country which will help the country’s development and its competitiveness in all indust More

Commercialization of research and knowledge is an inevitable activity to offset the cost of research and development (R&D) in the public and private research centers of the country which will help the country’s development and its competitiveness in all industries especially in advanced industries in addition to providing investment opportunities. The purpose of this study was to identify barriers to commercialization of research in AREEO. Grounded theory was used in this study as a research method. The data were gathered using a semi-structured interview and an open questionnaire with a sample of 25 faculty members of AREEO and subsidiary research centers and institute. Using open coding for the context of the interviews, 84 conceptual propositions were extracted about the barriers to the advancement of research commercialization in research, education and extension organization. The Concepts grouped in 14 categories and four groups within the coding hierarchy of grounded theory including basic and strategic barriers, organizational and structural barriers, human barriers and market barriers each of them represent an aspect of subject. Manuscript profile

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3 - Factors Affecting on Achievement of Water User Associations (Irrigation Network of Qazvin Plain)
Iraj Rashvand mehdi Mirdamadi Farhad Lashgarara

Nowadays, the water issue become one of the major crises in the world and has proven its key role in making life better for the world. The purpose of this study was to investigate the factors affecting the success of watersheds in Qazvin plain irrigation network. The st More

Nowadays, the water issue become one of the major crises in the world and has proven its key role in making life better for the world. The purpose of this study was to investigate the factors affecting the success of watersheds in Qazvin plain irrigation network. The statistical population of this study was 160 members of the hydropower organization (farmers) of Qazvin plain. A simple random sampling method was used and the Cochran formula was used to determine the statistical sample size of 90 utilization. The data gathering tool was a standard questionnaire which its validity was confirmed by experts and its reliability was determined by Cronbach's alpha coefficient for different parts of the questionnaire aboveα =./72 obtained. The results of correlation analysis show that there is a positive and significant relationship between educational level variables and land ownership with the success rate of water supply system. On the other hand, there is a negative and significant relationship between the history of membership in the water supply organization and their assessment of the success rate of the water supply organization at a 99% confidence level. The results of a multiple regression analysis indicated that the variables of social and managerial characteristics can predict 54 percent of the variability in the success rate of the water supply organization Manuscript profile

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4 - Analysis of Education and Extension Barriers to Develop Dehydrated Products Resistance in Khorramabad Township
Hossein Mikhak Mehdi Rahimian Saeed Gholamrezai

The present research is a survey and applied research where the objectives were to analyze the challenges of development of crops resistant to dehydration and to recognize the status of educational and extension barriers among farmers in Khorramabad township. The statis More

The present research is a survey and applied research where the objectives were to analyze the challenges of development of crops resistant to dehydration and to recognize the status of educational and extension barriers among farmers in Khorramabad township. The statistical population consisted of two groups of experts in the field of water management and water crops farmers in Khoramabad township in 2016-2017 (N = 7050). From experts 'community of 38 people and from the farmers' society, 202 people were selected by multi-stage sampling method and the required data were collected by a questionnaire. Questionnaire's reliability and validity confirmed respectively through computing Cronbach's alpha coefficient (α=0.761) and content validity. Data analyzed by SPSS software. Based on the results of exploratory factor analysis, barriers to the development of crops resistant to dehydration were classified into four categories: perceptual-attitude, informational-cognitive, service-supportive and educational-promotional. The results of the Mann-Whitney test showed that among the 18 barriers examined, only two barriers to "poor communication between experts and farmers regarding the cultivation of crop resistant crops" and "the lack of up-to-date extension training with site pattern changes" You did not stop developing crop resistant dehydrating products. But the comparison of the average of the presence of any barrier in the region with the average importance of the same obstacle showed that 16 other barriers significantly impeded the development of crops resistant to dehydration in the Khorramabad Township. Manuscript profile

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5 - The Investigation of Agricultural Land Use Change Trend and their Effects on Sustainable Development Components (Zayandehrood Basin of Isfahan Province)
sayed alireza ghadimi Abdolhamid Papzan Abas Amini

Currently, one of the most serious problems of agriculture in Iran is agricultural land use changes. This is a second fundamental issue after water shortage. Land use change is the main important example of human impact on the environment which induced many changes in s More

Currently, one of the most serious problems of agriculture in Iran is agricultural land use changes. This is a second fundamental issue after water shortage. Land use change is the main important example of human impact on the environment which induced many changes in social, economic and physical structure. So this investigation conducted to study the land use trend and their influence on sustainable development components. In this study Zayandehrood basin of Isfahan province was selected as the study area. In the present study in consistent with the nature of the research, Quantitative-qualitative methodology were used. According to the results the rate and speed of land use change process in studied area was intensely increased, as settlement lands during the study time increased from 14 thousand hectares to nearly 39 thousand hectares and their effects on sustainable development component could be divided in four elements (environmental, economic, social and agricultural). Manuscript profile

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6 - Barriers of Urban Agriculture Development from Perspective of Agricultural Extension Experts in Zanjan Province, Iran
Kolsoum Hamidi Jafar Yaghoubi

In the last century, the growth of urban population, rural population decline and the loss of agricultural lands have caused many problems in these communities. Doing agricultural activities within and around the city is rather new subject that its development leads to More

In the last century, the growth of urban population, rural population decline and the loss of agricultural lands have caused many problems in these communities. Doing agricultural activities within and around the city is rather new subject that its development leads to increase urban sustainability. The purpose of this study was identifying factors preventing the development of agricultural activities in the cities and around them. Descriptive survey method was used in this research. A questionnaire used to collect data. The validity of the questionnaire was approved by a panel of faculty member and related experts. Pre-test and calculating Cronbach’s alpha coefficients were used to measure the reliability (α =0.93). Agricultural extension experts in Zanjan province formed the population of this study (N=168) and 91 samples were selected using stratified random sampling. Based on exploratory factor analysis, the most important obstacles to the development of urban agriculture was summarized in six factors including: lack of legal, financial and educational support, weakness in the agricultural knowledge and expertise and lack of training course, prevalence of pests and diseases and bothering pet animals, lack of relationship between agriculture-related institutions and citizens, lack of suitable land and water for agriculture in city, and tend to apartment building. These factors explained 65.76 percent of the total variance of barriers to urban agriculture development Manuscript profile

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