Fereshteh Hafezi; Mehdi Rahimian; Saeid Gholamrezai
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The main purpose of this survey research is to evaluate the rural youth tendency to employment in agricultural sub-sectors in the Beyranshahr County in the Lorestan province. The statistical population consisted of 15 to 24-year old youth in the Beyranshahr County (N= 1404). Then 181 of them were selected ...
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The main purpose of this survey research is to evaluate the rural youth tendency to employment in agricultural sub-sectors in the Beyranshahr County in the Lorestan province. The statistical population consisted of 15 to 24-year old youth in the Beyranshahr County (N= 1404). Then 181 of them were selected as a statistical sample by using Cochran’s formula. The samples were selected in two stages. The first step is choosing the sample size proportional to the population in every village. Then, the samples that was specified in each village were chosen and the data was collected by using a questionnaire. Questionnaire's reliability and validity were confirmed, respectively through computing Cronbach's alpha coefficient and content validity. Finally, the data was analyzed by the SPSS software. The result showed that youth of the Beyranshahr County have respectively the most and least tendency to employment in horticulture and brokering (purchase and sale) of agricultural products. In addition, the tendency of youth to employment in the horticulture sub-sector such as collecting and processing medicinal plants in the forest and pastures and or industrial processes and packaging them exist more in youth in whose villages such activities are dominant as compared with the youth in whose villages such activities are not dominant.
Agricultural Extension and Education
Ehsan Khosravi; saeed gholamrezai; mehdi rahimian; morteza akbari
Abstract
Nowadays, development of agricultural cooperatives is a key strategy for rural development in many countries. In this regard, the key role that Organizational entrepreneurship plays in organizational success, especially in the agricultural sector, should not be ignored. The main purpose of this study ...
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Nowadays, development of agricultural cooperatives is a key strategy for rural development in many countries. In this regard, the key role that Organizational entrepreneurship plays in organizational success, especially in the agricultural sector, should not be ignored. The main purpose of this study is to determine the status of organizational entrepreneurship in agricultural cooperatives. The statistical population consisted of poultry cooperative members of the Kermanshah province in the west of Iran (N=1012). A sample of 220 respondents was selected using Cochran's formula by the stratified random sampling method. To collect data, a questionnaire adapted from the standard questionnaire developed by Antonice and Histrich (2001) and Scheepers et al. (2008) was used. The validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by faculty members at the Universities of Tehran, Lorestan and agricultural cooperative experts in the Kermanshah Province. Cronbach's alpha was used to estimate the reliability of the questionnaire. The reliability was found to be acceptable. In this study, the data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and inferential statistics, which was conducted by using the SPSS20 software. The results showed that organizational entrepreneurship in cooperatives included four dimensions of risk-taking, innovation, proactiveness, and strategic renewal. It is recommended that the managers of cooperatives and members use innovative ideas of the members of cooperatives to prepare the grounds for strengthening organizational entrepreneurship in cooperatives so that the possibility and requirements for sustainable rural development is provided.
