Original Article
Manochehr Ansari; Hossein Jamour; Mohammad Haghshenas Gorgabi; Mohammad Kavoosi-Kalashami
Volume 10, Issue 1 , Winter 2020, Pages 1-17
Abstract
Given the importance of knowledge-based firms in the agricultural sector, this paper aimed to identify barriers hindering companies from becoming knowledge-based in the dominant competitive and dynamic environment. To this end, using a qualitative approach, in-depth interviews were conducted to collect ...
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Given the importance of knowledge-based firms in the agricultural sector, this paper aimed to identify barriers hindering companies from becoming knowledge-based in the dominant competitive and dynamic environment. To this end, using a qualitative approach, in-depth interviews were conducted to collect data from 38 experts and managers in agricultural companies working in Alborz Science and Technology Park Isfahan, Hamedan, and Tehran University. The main criterion for determining the sample size was to reach the theoretical saturation. All respondents were selected using a theoretical and purposeful sampling method. Data coding and analysis procedures were completed in three stages. According to the results of the study, five main internal and external elements were identified: market inefficiency, governance-administrative barriers, inefficient union or organization, lack of skills and professionalism, and the internal inefficiency of the company.
Original Article
Saied Sehhat; Mohammad Taghi taghavifard; Reza salami; Mojtaba Afsharian
Volume 10, Issue 1 , Winter 2020, Pages 0-0
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The study aims at providing a model for talent management in active knowledge-based companies in agricultural domain of Guilan Province. This applied and descriptive study with a mixed research method. In the qualitative part, an in-depth semi-structured interview with 30 experts was used and also the ...
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The study aims at providing a model for talent management in active knowledge-based companies in agricultural domain of Guilan Province. This applied and descriptive study with a mixed research method. In the qualitative part, an in-depth semi-structured interview with 30 experts was used and also the theoretical foundations and research background study were applied for qualitative data collection. For collecting data in the quantitative part, the survey study was used. The survey research data were collected through a researcher-made questionnaire. The target population consisted of 150 intermediate managers, supervisors, and deputies of knowledge-based organizations in Rasht, of which 108 participants were selected via purposeful sampling as the sample size of this study. The sampling size was determined via the table of Krejcie and Morgan. SPSS19 software and Smart PLS3 software were used to analysis the data. The results showed that the dimensions identified in the field of talent management in the knowledge-based companies were include: internal talent identification, external talent identification, socialization (making socialized), development and talents retention. Two components identified for internal talent identification include identification of talented employees and the selection of talented employees. Three factors consist of transformational leadership, organizational culture and employer brand have been identified as the underlying and effective factors on talent management in the knowledge-based companies of agriculture section in Rasht city. The transformational leadership style has the greatest impact on the talent management and the employer brand is in next ranking in terms of the effectiveness level on the talent management.
Original Article
Farm Management
Okoye Amala Christiana
Volume 10, Issue 1 , Winter 2020, Pages 0-0
Abstract
Farmers can only be market oriented if his/her production plan follows market signals and produce commodities that is more marketable. In other to achieve this, this study provided empirical evidence on the Gender analyses of market orientation in South Eastern, Nigeria. A stratified sampling design ...
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Farmers can only be market oriented if his/her production plan follows market signals and produce commodities that is more marketable. In other to achieve this, this study provided empirical evidence on the Gender analyses of market orientation in South Eastern, Nigeria. A stratified sampling design was used to select 360 sample respondents in 2017. Market Orientation Index (MOI) and Heckit selectivity model were used to estimate the level of market orientation and determinants of market orientation respectively. The results show a mean market orientation score of 0.17 and 0.59 for the male and female sweetpotato farmers respectively, indicating low level of market orientation especially for the male farmers. The coefficients for age, educational level, capital, area cultivated with sweetpotato, farming experience, marketing experience, native of community, and road conditions were positive and household size negative and significantly related to market orientation for female farmers. Coefficients for age, household size, education, transportation cost, native of community, and marketing experience were positive and distance from farm to the market was negative and significantly related with market orientation for the male farmers. The coefficients for gender were negative and significant at 5% and 1% for probability of being market oriented and level of market orientation respectively, indicating that the female farmers were more likely to be market oriented compared to their male counterparts. The study therefore calls for policies on promoting farmers access to land (particularly the female farmers), availability and the use of quality planting seed and establishment of formal sweetpotato market.
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Strategic planning
hossein badih barzin; seyed mahdi Hoseyni; amir Taghavi; mohammad norozian
Volume 10, Issue 1 , Winter 2020, Pages 0-0
Abstract
Subsidy is a tool used by governments as a form of financial aid to support specific economic sectors. Today subsidy is common in several countries, such as Iran due to different political and economic reasons. This study has examined the effects of changing agricultural subsidies on production and exports. ...
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Subsidy is a tool used by governments as a form of financial aid to support specific economic sectors. Today subsidy is common in several countries, such as Iran due to different political and economic reasons. This study has examined the effects of changing agricultural subsidies on production and exports. For this purpose, a computable general equilibrium model (CGE) for the year 2011 was used in social accounting matrix form in 2001 as the statistical basis. For the extraction and transportation of nonlinear programming model "mixed complementary problem" (MCP) was used. Social Accounting Matrix was divided into six main sectors: agriculture, oil and gas, textiles, energy, industry and services. To examine the effect of subsidy, the amount of agricultural subsidies was reduced by four steps and its effects on the endogenous variables were examined. Results showed that reducing agricultural subsidies, decreases the level of agricultural production by 21.3% and increases prices which in turn causes deviation of real exchange rate from equilibrium that prevents the exports in this sector. Moreover, by reducing subsidies the unemployment rate increases and welfare decreases.
Original Article
Morteza Akbari; Afsaneh Bagheri; Enayat Abbasi
Volume 10, Issue 1 , Winter 2020, Pages 0-0
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Higher education has recently faced new challenges and responsibilities such as higher expectations to contribute to national and regional developments; considerable cuts in public funds, and the highly competitive educational markets. Previous research has suggested a positive association between development ...
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Higher education has recently faced new challenges and responsibilities such as higher expectations to contribute to national and regional developments; considerable cuts in public funds, and the highly competitive educational markets. Previous research has suggested a positive association between development of human capitals in higher education institutions and their capacity to deal with these challenges. Yet, there are few empirical studies on the factors that constitute faculty members’ development. The main purpose of this study was to investigate faculty members’ development components in Agricultural Higher Education in Iran. Specifically, it aimed to explore the differences among faculties of agriculture on the components of their faculty members’ development and analyze academics’ perceptions toward the current and desirable status of their development. Furthermore, it examined the faculty members’ perceptions toward the most influential component of their development. The population was 1837 faculty members which 280 of them were selected using stratified random sampling method. The results showed that the faculty members perceived individual development higher than and equal to average. There was also a significant difference between the universities on the components of their faculty members’ development based on their size except for their individual development. The analysis also suggested wide gaps between the status quo and desirable situations of each component of development as perceived by the faculty members. Furthermore, the faculty members perceived their professional development as the most influential component of their development. Recommendations are made to improve faculty members’ development in agricultural higher education particularly in Iran.
Review Article
Environmental policy and management
Sahar Doaei; Ebrahim Pazira; Shahla Mahmoodi; Ali Mohammadi Torkashvand
Volume 10, Issue 1 , Winter 2020, Pages 0-0
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Conservative agriculture is considered as an alternative to tackle the need for increased agricultural production based on sustainable agriculture activities with the aim of increasing production and product stability along with preserving the environment. Tillage is one of the most important factors ...
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Conservative agriculture is considered as an alternative to tackle the need for increased agricultural production based on sustainable agriculture activities with the aim of increasing production and product stability along with preserving the environment. Tillage is one of the most important factors affecting soil structure. Selection of appropriate tillage systems varies according to the conditions of each region, such as climate, soil type, type of plant residues, tensile strength and so on. Understanding the components of aggregate sustainability controller is very important for maintaining soil structure. This review paper discusses the role of tillage on aggregate stability and soil structure in order to reach conservative agriculture development. Considering the advantages of conservation tillage, it is better to use this kind of tillage for sustainable agriculture development. Based on the analysis of available literature, it can be concluded that Conservation tillage also enhances soil structural stability through its positive effects on soil moisture, organic matter. Less soil disturbance, which is the characteristics of conservation tillage, has positive effects on soil properties, soil processes which interact in a complex way and together, they all enhance soil quality.
Original Article
Education and training
Seyedeh Marzieh Razeghi; Hasan Sadighi; Mohammad Chizari
Volume 10, Issue 1 , Winter 2020, Pages 0-0
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Sustainable agricultural and rural development requires knowledge and information, skills, attitudes and technologies, which run through a network of actors to produce, distribute and use it in a particular place. The model of the Agriculture Knowledge and Information Systems (AKIS) is designed based ...
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Sustainable agricultural and rural development requires knowledge and information, skills, attitudes and technologies, which run through a network of actors to produce, distribute and use it in a particular place. The model of the Agriculture Knowledge and Information Systems (AKIS) is designed based on this recognition. In Iran, There are about decades of experience in the development of this system. The purpose of this Delphi study was to develop a listing of those challenges facing Iran's Agricultural Knowledge and Information System (AKIS). Panel of experts consisted of extension offices, natural-level researchers, faculty members of Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), and university faculty in agricultural extension and education. The panel identified 86 challenges of AKIS in Iran that were classified into 8 categories consisting of Participatory-institutional, Policy-legal, Information broadcasting-communicational, Monitoring and evaluation, Actors competency, supportive-motivational, management-structural and infrastructure-environmental.
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Strategic planning
rezvan ahadi; soroush ghazinouri; laya Olfat; jahanyar Bamdad Soofi
Volume 10, Issue 1 , Winter 2020, Pages 0-0
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The present study aimed to investigate the organic agricultural products supply chain in Iran and provide a processes maturity framework for this chain based on the Iranian Standard of the organic products. Accordingly, the model, proposed in this research, provides an improvement tool that addresses ...
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The present study aimed to investigate the organic agricultural products supply chain in Iran and provide a processes maturity framework for this chain based on the Iranian Standard of the organic products. Accordingly, the model, proposed in this research, provides an improvement tool that addresses the integration of company's internal processes at low levels, and the integration of the processes with external partners at higher levels of maturity given the definition of maturity levels. The model can also be used as a roadmap for improving supply chain processes. This roadmap identifies both strengths and opportunities for improvement in the organic agricultural products supply chain. The model presented in this study includes the main components of all maturity models namely the maturity levels definition based on the five-level structure, the corresponding questionnaire (validated by the CVI index), by which, it is possible to evaluate the status quo of the supply chain, and a roadmap for the processes needing improvement including several improvements practices obtained in consultation with experts. According to the results of implementing the proposed maturity model on two sub-chains of organic agricultural products, because achieving the lowest score, two processes of customer relationship management and customer service management need the most attention and improvement, which is in line with theoretical results. Finally, improvement practices were proposed and ranked by ANP method for each of these processes that can be used as an action plan by managers and practitioners in this field.
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