Document Type : Original Research
Authors
1 Assistant Professor, Department of Agriculture, Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran
2 - M.Sc. degree student of the Department of Agriculture, Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran
3 - Assistant Professor, Department of Agriculture, Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
Today, the issue of health and food quality is one of the challenges facing communities and organic farming as an alternative to conventional agriculture, is growing and expanding rapidly and in the near future the most important and main feature of the presence of agricultural products in global markets. , The supply of products will be free of chemical and organic compounds. This study aims to analyze the components of organic agriculture development from the perspective of agricultural jihad experts in Tehran province. In terms of nature, it is a quantitative research, in terms of the degree of control of variables, it is non-experimental, and in terms of purpose, it is part of applied research and has been done by descriptive-correlation method. The statistical population was all experts of agricultural jihad in Tehran Province who had been employed for at least one year before the research and their number was 200 people. Morgan's table was used to estimate the sample sizes (127 people) that were selected by simple random sampling. In the current research, the main tool for data collection was a questionnaire, which was used to calculate the reliability of the questionnaires, using Cronbach's alpha method and using Spss statistical software. (α=0.94). In this research, in the descriptive analysis section, statistical methods such as frequency distribution, mean, standard deviation, profile, median, etc., and in the inferential analysis section, factor analysis method has been used. The results show that various components have an impact on the development process of organic agriculture, which during factor analysis in five categories of economic-supportive components (9.653), educational-knowledge (7.799), technical-promotional (7.766), institutional- Legal (7.152) and research-propaganda (4.258) were summarized, which explained a total of 61.048% of the variance of organic agriculture development components. Therefore, the development of organic agriculture requires factors that require a proper combination of each at the right time and place.
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