Affective Factors in the Wheat Farmers’ Adoption of Farming Methods of Soil Management in West Azerbaijan Province, Iran
| Autor: | Soleiman Rasouliazar, Saeid Fealy |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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| Zdroj: | International Journal of Agricultural Management and Development, Vol 3, Iss 2, Pp 73-82 (2013) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 2159-5852 2159-5860 |
| Popis: | Soil Management (SM) is critical to human well-being that itis more important now because of meeting the high demandsfor food production and satisfying the needs of an increasingworld population. Therefore, the purpose of this descriptivecorrelationstudy was to investigate the effective factors onwheat farmers’ adoption of Farming Methods of Soil Management(FMSM). The research instrument was a structural questionnairewith close-ended questions, which its validity and reliabilitywas confirmed. The target population included all wheat farmersin West Azerbaijan Province (N=24949) that among of them,371 wheat farmers was chosen by using Krejcie & Morgan’stable through multi-stage sampling (n=371). The descriptiveresults showed the majority of farmers (237 or 63.90%) hadmoderate adoption of FMSM. These results also indicatedfarmers used three FMSM namely 1) using crop rotation, 2)using animal fertilizers, and 3) using soil testing more thanothers did. On the other hands, there were significant relationshipsbetween some of personal, farming, social, economic, and extension-education characteristics of farmers and the amount oftheir adoption of FMSM. Finally, stepwise regression analysisrevealed that 35.30% (R2 =0.353) of the variances in the amountof farmers' adoption of FMSM could be explained by the fivevariables namely farm size, knowledge about FMSM, the amountof extension contacts about FMSM, distance between farm andagricultural service centers, and the amount of attitude towardFMSM. |
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