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Assessment The Agricultural Student's Attitudes Towards Organic Farming (Case of Iran)
Farid Golzardi, Shabnam Sarvaramini, Mohammad Reza Ardakani, Ali Asadi and Khalil Kalantari
Corresponding Author: Farid Golzardi
Submitted: 2011 September, 14
Accepted: 2011 October, 15
Published: 2012 February, 01 |
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A surveying research was conducted to study and recognize the knowledge and attitude of students
toward organic farming at three universities of Iran in 2010. Our consumption patterns and environmental
behaviors are rooted in long lived practices and habits. Social norms and values are among the factors that
determine what we buy or what we think about organic products. As they are largely unconscious it is difficult
to change them. Students are the agriculturist of tomorrow; therefore policies aimed at developing organic
farming should address the needs of this group. To discover agriculturist's knowledge organic farming, a survey
among 100 agricultural students was conducted. Questionnaire was used to examine students’ knowledge
regarding organic farming. Finding is shown that agriculturist's awareness towards organic farming are low,
especially in Pests management and Organic product standards aspect. The result of factor analysis showed that
nine factors named as concepts, Nutrient safety and security, Organic farming economic, Organic farming
extension, Social issue, fertility, Pests management, Environment safety, Organic product standard explained
73.71% of total variance that the first factor accounts for 11.98% of the variance, the second 10.954%, the
third 9.191%, the fourth 8.505%, the fifth 8.426%, the sixth 7.536%, the seventh 7.015%, the eighth 5.746%
and the ninth 4.364%. In conclusion, to enhance student knowledge about organic farming, it is important that
curriculum develops for familiar student with organic farming practices and concepts such as: ecological
equilibrium, agro ecosystem sustainability, new technology and indigenous knowledge, nutrition value, human
safety, favorite yield production, soil structure improvement, erosion reduces and etc.
Key words: Factor analysis, knowledge, organic farming, student, , ,
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Farid Golzardi, Shabnam Sarvaramini, Mohammad Reza Ardakani, Ali Asadi and Khalil Kalantari, . Assessment The Agricultural Student's Attitudes Towards Organic Farming (Case of Iran). Research Journal of Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology, (03): 191-195.
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ISSN (Online): 2040-7467
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