these days, promotion of farmers' technical-scientific abilities in agriculture is one of the main challenges in this sector. agricultural extension as a motivate power source in agricultural development can be more effective in solving these problems via acceptance of responsibility in the educational concepts. but it faces numerous obstacles because of absence of a proper informational s...

the purpose of this study was to assess the process of extension program development in iranian agricultural extension system (iaes). the research instrument was a structural questionnaire with close-ended questions which its validity and reliability was confirmed by using expert panel and cranach’s alpha test, respectively. the target population of this research included all extension managers...

Identifying role of extension system in adoption of new technologies have important role to developing favorable extension systems. For supporting sustainable agriculture in Iran needs extension systems to be carefully thought and accurately implemented. The purpose of this is analyzing role of extension activities in adoption of sustainable agriculture. Based on the results the attending agric...

abstract the purpose of this study is investigating factors affect on probability of willingness to pay sugar beet farmers for taking of agricultural extension services. logit model was used for cross sectional data in 2009 between 150 sugar beet farmers that were selected by random sampling in the city of mashhad. in addition, tobit model was used to analyse factors affecting on willingness to...

there is undoubtedly general agreement that the efficiency of educational investments should he maximized through the managerial process as far as possible. agricultural extension is one of the crucial tasks in developing agricultural societies calling for considerable consumption of intellectual investment. the management of agricultural extension projects (aeps) however, needs careful pla...

this study examines iranian agricultural researchers’ attitudes regarding collaboration with extension workers and the variables associated with the researchers’ attitudes. data were obtained using a questionnaire developed by agricultural research centers of charmahal and bakhtiari, isfahan, safiabad and khuzestan in 1998. the findings re-vealed that the researchers’ attitudes towards collabor...

the main purpose of this research was to investigate farmer’s attitude towards privatization of agricultural extension in shirgah district , mazandaran province. the statistical population consisted of 15300 farmers who inhabited as residents in 54 villages. using stratified proportional random sampling, 150 farmers (through cochran formula) were selected. the study revealed that 84% of farmers...

abstract the aim of this study was to assess the affects of agricultural extension programs on the promotion of the efficiency, knowledge and technical expertise of farmers. the study also aimed to analyze the factors affecting the acceptance of agricultural extension programs with regards to process of agricultural development. a survey consisting of 137 samples was conducted between wheat far...