Training Needs Assessment: The Case of Female Rice Farmers in Northern Iran

Agricultural agents; Agricultural technology adoption; Educational need; Rice farmers; Rural women; Food Science; Agronomy and Crop Science; Plant Science

Abstract :

[en] An appraisal of training requirements responds to the issue of why training is needed and gives some assurance that the services needed to establish and conduct training can achieve the required outcomes based on performance. Therefore, the goal of this study was to examine the educational needs of female rice farmers in Sari (the capital of Mazandaran province located in Northern Iran). This study adopted a descriptive-correlational approach consisting of 1677 female rice farmers in Sari in 2013–2015. Finally, 240 respondents were selected and examined using Cochran’s formula and through stratified sampling with proportional assignment. The results of multivariate stepwise regression indicated that the level of participation (−0.488), the importance of economic factors (0.369), the number of training courses (−0.284), and marital status (−0.179) of female rice farmers were effective on the training needs level. According to the findings, training programs should take into account the educational needs of female rice farmers in order to gain the necessary expertise and skills in new methods and transfer them to other farmers.

Disciplines :

Environmental sciences & ecology

Author, co-author :

Goli, Imaneh ; Department of Economics, Agricultural Extension and Education, Tehran Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

Azadi, Hossein ; Université de Liège - ULiège > TERRA Research Centre > Modélisation et développement ; Department of Geography, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium ; Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi, China

Miceikienė, Astrida ; Agriculture Academy, Vytautas Magnus University, Akademija, Lithuania

Tanaskovik, Vjekoslav ; Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Food-Skopje, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, Skopje, North Macedonia

Stamenkovska, Ivana Janeska ; Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Food-Skopje, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, Skopje, North Macedonia

Kurban, Alishir ; Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi, China ; Research Center for Ecology and Environment of Central Asia, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi, China ; Sino-Belgian Joint Laboratory for Geo-Information, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi, China ; College of Resources and Environment, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Viira, Ants-Hannes; Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Chair of Rural Economics, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, Estonia

Language :

English

Title :

Training Needs Assessment: The Case of Female Rice Farmers in Northern Iran

Publication date :

March 2022

Journal title :

Agriculture

eISSN :

2077-0472

Publisher :

MDPI

Volume :

Issue :

Pages :

390

Peer reviewed :

Peer reviewed

Additional URL :

https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0472/12/3/390/pdf

Funding text :

Funding: This study received no funding from any organization.

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