Farmers’ Participation In Financing Of Agricultural Extension Services A Case Study In Varamin
2007
Hedjazi, Y., Associate Professor of Agricultural Extension Education, Tehran University. | Soltani, Sh., PhD student of Azad University
Participation of farmers in the financing of extension services is rapidly becoming a new paradigm in discussion of rural development policy. The purpose of this survey was to study the farmers’ desire to pay for extension services. Respondents Group of the study was farmers who grow cotton in Varamin Province (Located in Tehran province). 294 farmers selected through stratified random sampling method. Gathering data instrument was a questionnaire completed through interview. Cronbach خ± for the main part of Questionnaire- assessing farmers’ desire to pay for extension services- was 0.76. Findings showed that if there be a contracting system to ensure farmers about services’ profitability, they will agree with participation in financing agricultural extension services .Effective factors on farmers desire to pay for agricultural extension services were: farmers’ age, education, experience, the amount of cultivated area and their need to information.
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