the study was carried out among potato farmers in ardabil plain, to investigate their attitude towards sustainable agricultural practices. it was comprised of a stratified sample of 140 farmers from two townships (ardabil and naming) who were operating in 24000 hectares of potato farms. descriptive survey research was employed in the study. data were gathered using a questionnaire and through i...

the purpose of this present study is recognizing suitable extension methods and techniques influencing utilize knowledge, attitude and skills of natural resources perimeter sustainable management of natural resources. in this research sustainable management of natures resources is to struggle for prevention of changing renewable nature resources to lands agricultural, prevention of use more fro...

the purpose of this descriptive-correlational study was to analyze farmers' attitude toward new agricultural knowledge in mehreiz and khatam townships. the statistical population for the study consisted of the farmers of mehreiz and khatam township (n=22618). a multistage sample of farmers was selected (n=281). based on the findings, the use of specialized publications and the recommendati...

BACKGROUND Skin cancer is one of the most common types of cancer. As farmers stay under sun for a long time and handle many different chemicals, they are at risk. This study was carried out to examine the effects of training for protection on their knowledge level and attitudes. METHOD The subjects were 194 farmers living in a village in Marmara region which most benefits from the sun in Turk...

Researchers aspire to strike a balance between the production and consumption of ecosystem services (ES) in agriculture for long-term farm sustainability. One approach is to provide payments for ecosystem services (PES) through government programs. Therefore, it is necessary to evaluate ecosystem services and use the evaluated information to determine what policy designs could effectively induc...

We studied acceptance of a urine-based fertilizer product using a mail survey of 467 Swiss farmers. We distinguished among four production types: organic or IP farming, and with or without vegetable production. Considering that the idea of urine-based fertilizers is new, acceptance among the answering farmers was surprisingly high, with 57% explicitly stating that they thought it was a good or ...

The importance of shea tree to the people of south-western Nigeria cannot be over emphasized considering both the economic and environmental uses of the tree. However, efforts have not been made to propagate its production by the farmers as the shea tree still grows in the wild state. It would be worthwhile to investigate farmers’ perception of shea nut tree as an economic tree and their attitu...