Examining of wheat advisor engineers' perception in developing wheat sustainable cultivation methods wheat in Kermanshah County

Document Type : Research Paper

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to develop wheat sustainable cultivation methods from wheat advisor engineers' perception .Statistical population for this study consisted of all wheat advisor engineers in Kermanshah county (N=128). In this study the data were collected by a questionnaire. The validity of questionnaire confirmed by a panel of experts in this field such as experts of agricultural jihad and wheat advisor engineers , and its reliability completed through a pilot test and measured through Cronbach's alpha coefficient (.89). The results of this study showed that there was a positive and significant relationship between the variable of developing sustainable cultivation methods of wheat and the variable of level of present knowledge, educational level, working experience, rate of contact with agricultural researchers, educational lectures, group teaching techniques, visiting farmers' farm, and using workshop. The result of multiple regression indicated that present knowledge, educational level, educational lecture, work experience and contact with agricultural researchers, could predict nearly 57 percent of the changes in variance rate of dependent variable.

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