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Farmer’s Attitude on Sustainable Agriculture and its Determinants: A Case Study in Behbahan County of Iran
S. Abolhasan Sadati, Hosain Shaabanali Fami, Ali Asadi and S. Abolghasem Sadati
Corresponding Author: Seyed Abolhasan Sadati
Submitted: 2010 May, 03
Accepted: 2010 May, 20
Published: 2010 August, 01 |
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The purpose of this study was to conduct a descriptive survey to study the attitudes and perceptions
of Iranian farmers on the concepts and thoughts of sustainable agriculture and identifying effective factors on
their attitude. The target population of this study consisted of 7314 Behbahan farmers of Khuzestan province
of Iran. A sample consisting of 208 respondents was selected through Stratified Sampling. The instrument used
for assessing the attitude of respondents on the concepts of sustainable agriculture was a questionnaire by
reliability 0.78. Responses were grouped based on the differences in standard deviation of mean, which
revealed that 73.4% of respondents had moderate attitude towards concepts of sustainable agriculture. The
results of study showed that there is positive correlation between literacy, participation in extension courses,
off-farm income, farmer's knowledge about sustainable agriculture, level of use of sustainable agriculture
methods, extension contacts and job satisfaction and negative correlation between age, experience in
agricultural activities, family size and agrarian land with attitude toward sustainable agriculture. According to
result of regression the ‘extension contacts’, ‘Farmers knowledge about sustainable agriculture’, ‘Job
satisfaction’ and ‘literacy’ are effective factors on farmers attitude toward sustainable agriculture and explained
52.6% of this scale.
Key words: Attitude, Behbahan County, sustainable agriculture, , , ,
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S. Abolhasan Sadati, Hosain Shaabanali Fami, Ali Asadi and S. Abolghasem Sadati, . Farmer’s Attitude on Sustainable Agriculture and its Determinants: A Case Study in Behbahan County of Iran. Research Journal of Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology, (5): Page No: 422-427.
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ISSN (Online): 2040-7467
ISSN (Print): 2040-7459 |
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