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

Imaneh Goli,Vjekoslav Tanaskovik,Alishir Kurban,Ants-Hannes Viira,Hossein Azadi,Astrida Miceikienė,Ivana Janeska Stamenkovska

doi:10.3390/agriculture12030390

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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IntroductionFor the 85 years, the world’s population will rise by over four billion and will reach 11 billion by 2100, according to the UN 2017 projection
The training needs assessment of rice farmers in Sari were assessed by measuring the variables of social characteristics, personal characteristics, economic characteristics, professional educational characteristics, promotional educational extension, source of information, and job properties
The findings of the factor path study indicate that the degree of involvement had the greatest effect on the estimation of the training needs of female rice farmers among the factors analyzed (Table 6)

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For the 85 years, the world’s population will rise by over four billion and will reach 11 billion by 2100, according to the UN 2017 projection. Lam’s essay [1] “The World’s 4 billion”, there is a discussion on the protection of natural ecosystems, food stability, the future of mankind’s nutrition, and training [1]. It is necessary to study the training needs of farmers, especially in the case of products that make up the staple food of more than half of the world’s population. Many agricultural scientists and food security experts suggest that intensification is required to feed the increasing population on a global scale [2]. Food security is one of mankind’s fundamental rights, and in order to accomplish it, global food production, such as grain output, must expand

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