Sustainable Development, Analyzing of Wheat Growers' Attitudes and Perceptions

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Associated Proffessor, Bu- Ali Sina University

2 Payame Noor University

Abstract

The main purpose of this study was Analyzing farmers' attitudes to sustainable development and some factors affecting on in Rural County West Islamabad. The data collection instrument was a questionnaire which its validity and reliability was determined by sustainable development expert and Cronbach's alpha value calculated from 0.65 to 0.77 for different parts of the questionnaire. For data analysis softwares SPSS20 and Lisrel 8.8 were used. The results factor analysis showed that among three factors: attitude, of "emotional" with coefficient λ =0.60 is greatest amount of variance as the strongest indicators related to attitudes about agricultural sustainability have been identified. Also The results of multivariate regression showed that the only variable between the different variables cultivation positive effect of age predicted a negative effect on people's attitudes in the field of sustainable agriculture. With increased acreage positive attitude and approach them with increasing age My‌‌Shvd negative. According to the results, for improveing the attitude of farmers in sustainable agricultural development sugestion were presented.

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