Factors Influencing Girls' Motivation to Participate in Agricultural Work

Authors

1 Department of Agriculture, University of Tehran

2 University of KermanShah

3 Senior Expert in Ministry of Agriculture

4 Student in Department of Agriculture, University of Tehran

Abstract

Agriculture is a major sector of the Iranian economy. Agricultural development goals cannot be achieved unless empowering and managing of the human resources are taken into consideration. Aging is a recent henomenon, which is affecting agricultural sector. Therefore, agricultural lanners are faced with the challenge to find solutions to persuade, and to educate, the rural youth for entering the agricultural activity. In this regard, deally there should not be any discrimination between males and females as 'Ural women and girls have played crucial roles in agriculture since the"mergence of farming. The rationale for taking up such a topic for research as derived from the fact that rural youths are demonstrating low interest in articipating in agricultural activities. Stratified random sampling was pplied and 187 rural girls were selected from 6 districts and 11 villages of ' ermanshah County for the interview. The results showed that the -espondents had medium level of motivation to participate in agriculture. ep-wise regression analysis indicated that 21 percent of variation in the ependent variable (e.g., motivation). This was detemlined by five variables ong which the extent of participation in agriculture was the most :'1portant one. In addition, literacy level of mothers negatively affected the :: rls' motivation.

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Women's Studies Sociological and Psychological
Volume 2, Issue 4
March 2004
Pages 65-84

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