Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
1 Assistant Professor of The Department of Geography, University of Payam-e-Nour, Shahin Shahr Center
2 Instructor of Agricultural Department of Payam Noor University in Shahrekord center
3 Master of Sociology, Islamic Azad University, Dehaghan Branch
Abstract
The general purpose of this paper was to analyze some of the socio-economic barriers on the way of motivating the cooperation of farmers with the supervisors of the scheme of wheat self-sufficiency. The research is of applied type and through survey method, carried out by selecting a simple random sample of 100 farmers in the Ardal plain. The research tool was a questionnaire and the validity of the questionnaire was verified according to the collective view of the related professors and experts and its reliability was calculated using the Cronbach's alpha formula (a = 0.93). To investigate the hypotheses and to answer to the research questions, Spearman and Pearson correlation tests have been used. The insignificance of the relationship between the motivation of cooperation of the farmers with their age and their average monthly income, a positive and direct relation between motivation of cooperation with the level of education of farmers and their level of knowledge about the results of the implementation of the project, and, finally, direct but weak correlation between The motivation of cooperation with the average size of the land owned by each farmer.
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