Iranian agricultural professionals' knowledge on organic farming
Year: 2011
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Organic farming is a holistic and sustainable food production system which can be considered as analternative to conventional agriculture in Iran. Each policy to diffusion of organic farming leads todemands on knowledge of agricultural professionals. This is therefore important to understandprofessionals’ knowledge on organic farming and to identify the key factors influencing it. The mainpurpose of this research was to investigate factors influencing agricultural professionals’ knowledgeon organic farming. A survey was conducted among agricultural professionals in the Jihad-eKeshavarzi Organization of two southern provinces in Iran (Khuzestan and Fars), using stratifiedrandom sampling for selection of sample. The results showed that age and access to information onagriculture and environment were two important variables that had a positive and direct effect on theorganic knowledge. Other variables such as social norms about organic farming via health attitude,nutrient attitude and general attitude towards environment have weak indirect effects on knowledge oforganic farming.
Language: English
Topic: Organic Food and Agriculture
Subfield: Plant Science
Domain: Life Sciences
SDG: Zero hunger
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2135420587