@article{Rasouliazar:164035,
      recid = {164035},
      author = {Rasouliazar, Soleiman and Fealy, Saeid},
      title = {Affective Factors in the Wheat Farmers’ Adoption of  Farming Methods of Soil Management in West Azerbaijan  Province, Iran},
      journal = {International Journal of Agricultural Management and  Development (IJAMAD)},
      address = {2013-06},
      number = {1047-2016-85504},
      pages = {10},
      year = {2013},
      abstract = {Soil Management (SM) is critical to human well-being that  it
is more important now because of meeting the high  demands
for food production and satisfying the needs of an  increasing
world population. Therefore, the purpose of this  descriptivecorrelation
study was to investigate the  effective factors on
wheat farmers’ adoption of Farming  Methods of Soil Management
(FMSM). The research instrument  was a structural questionnaire
with close-ended questions,  which its validity and reliability
was confirmed. The  target population included all wheat farmers
in West  Azerbaijan Province (N=24949) that among of them,
371 wheat  farmers was chosen by using Krejcie & Morgan’s
table  through multi-stage sampling (n=371). The  descriptive
results showed the majority of farmers (237 or  63.90%) had
moderate adoption of FMSM. These results also  indicated
farmers used three FMSM namely 1) using crop  rotation, 2)
using animal fertilizers, and 3) using soil  testing more than
others did. On the other hands, there  were significant relationships
between some of personal,  farming, social, economic, and extension-
education  characteristics of farmers and the amount of
their adoption  of FMSM. Finally, stepwise regression analysis
revealed  that 35.30% (R2 =0.353) of the variances in the amount
of  farmers' adoption of FMSM could be explained by the  five
variables namely farm size, knowledge about FMSM, the  amount
of extension contacts about FMSM, distance between  farm and
agricultural service centers, and the amount of  attitude toward
FMSM.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/164035},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.164035},
}