Investigation of researcher's mental and practical attitude to agricultural sustainable development
2007
Alipour, Hassan | Moghadas Farimani, Shahram | Ghafari, Davood | Alini, Mohsen | Shoaei, Emadeden
The main purpose of this study was investigation of researcher's mental and practical attitude to agricultural sustainable development and answering to these questions: what is cognition of researches to agricultural sustainable development concept? What is their mental to agricultural sustainable development? and what is their behavioral to agricultural sustainable development? This research using quantitative research approach and research methodology was measurement of attitudes that measuring the researchers attitude to agricultural sustainable development. Dependent and independent variables were researchers' individual and organizational characteristics, researchers' attitude to agricultural sustainable development and researchers' knowledge to agricultural sustainable development concept. The main technique for data collection was questionnaire and the population includes all of researchers employed at agronomic research centers.The findings indicated, researches activities of respondents direct to solving of agricultural problems after determination of research needs and problems and using from other researchers cooperation with different specialty at doing of researches activities. In the responses views, their research findings must be have consequences such as increasing in agricultural performance, protection of agricultural production at the long term, protection of agricultural and natural resources and increasing in farmers productions and income. However the finding indicated that researchers have positive attitude and high knowledge to agricultural sustainable development concept but they have low attention to using of farmers participation and its farms at doing of research projects.
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