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Individual Factors Affecting Farmers’ Motivation to Participate in Date Growers’ Organizations in Khuzestan
E. Alimirzaei and A. Asady
Corresponding Author: Erfan Alimirzaei
Submitted: 2011 May, 02
Accepted: 2011 June, 07
Published: 2011 August, 30 |
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Khuzestan Province has a great share in Iran’s date production in which many rural households are
directly dependent to dates production. However, small holding system has led to a lot of challenges faced by
small scale farmers whereas much potential of date production and marketing lost every year. Despite of strong
felt need to social capital development and government’s recent activities in order to help farmers to organize
themselves, there is not so much interest in this connection generally. So, the purpose of this study was to
provide a framework for understanding the individual factors affecting farmers’ motivation to participate in date
growers’ organizations. The population of the research consisted of 584 members of five present date growers’
organizations. By the use of Cochran Formula, 120 farmers were randomly selected as research sample. Data
were gathered trough a researcher-made questionnaire and analyzed by the use of SPSS software. The results
of multiple regression analysis indicated that three independent variables namely "degree of formal education",
"attendance in extension-education courses" and "years of date growing", predicted 62% of variation of
farmers’ total motivation to participate in date growers’ organizations.
Key words: Farmers’ organization (FOs), participation, rural development, multiple regression, date growing, ,
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E. Alimirzaei and A. Asady, . Individual Factors Affecting Farmers’ Motivation to Participate in Date Growers’ Organizations in Khuzestan. Research Journal of Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology, (08): 725-730.
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ISSN (Online): 2040-7467
ISSN (Print): 2040-7459 |
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