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

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  • Imaneh Goli

    (Department of Economics, Agricultural Extension and Education, Tehran Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran 14778-93855, Iran)

  • Hossein Azadi

    (Department of Geography, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
    Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 818 South Beijing Road, Urumqi 830011, China)

  • Astrida Miceikienė

    (Agriculture Academy, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas Distr., 53361 Akademija, Lithuania)

  • Vjekoslav Tanaskovik

    (Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Food-Skopje, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, 1000 Skopje, North Macedonia)

  • Ivana Janeska Stamenkovska

    (Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Food-Skopje, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, 1000 Skopje, North Macedonia)

  • Alishir Kurban

    (Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 818 South Beijing Road, Urumqi 830011, China
    Research Center for Ecology and Environment of Central Asia, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 818 South Beijing Road, Urumqi 830011, China
    Sino-Belgian Joint Laboratory for Geo-Information, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi 830011, China
    College of Resources and Environment, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China)

  • Ants-Hannes Viira

    (Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Chair of Rural Economics, Estonian University of Life Sciences, 51006 Tartu, Estonia)

Abstract

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.

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  • Imaneh Goli & Hossein Azadi & Astrida Miceikienė & Vjekoslav Tanaskovik & Ivana Janeska Stamenkovska & Alishir Kurban & Ants-Hannes Viira, 2022. "Training Needs Assessment: The Case of Female Rice Farmers in Northern Iran," Agriculture, MDPI, vol. 12(3), pages 1-18, March.
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