Assessment of Knowledge of Wheat Farmers of Abhar City about Sustainable Agriculture Development and Affecting Factors

The purpose of this study is to evaluate Abhar wheat farmers’ knowledge about sustainable agricultural development and the factors affecting it. The population of this research consists of wheat farmers of Abhar and given their abundance and distribution throughout the province, a total of 120 individuals were sampled using the Cochran formula. Required information was collected using a questionnaire and simple random sampling method. Permissibility of the questionnaires was obtained by consultation with experts in the promotion and development of rural and its reliability was obtained using Cronbach alpha test (α = %0.86). For this purpose, a total of 30 questionnaires were provided for the wheat farmers and collected data were analyzed. The obtained Cronbach alpha showed that the questions will lead the questionnaire to the targets. After revisions, the survey required data were collected and analyzed by SPSS software and appropriate statistical methods. Correlation analysis showed that there is significant relationship between age, education, level of total land, area under wheat cultivation, crop production, participation in promotional training courses, use of information sources for more information on sustainable agriculture, attitude toward sustainable agriculture, land tenure type and income obtained from wheat production and technical knowledge of wheat farmers in the field of sustainable agriculture. The multiple regression results also show that variables of education level, crop production, participation in promotional training courses and attitude toward sustainable agriculture have a significant effect on the dependent variable and that 44% of changes of dependent variable are determined by the independent variables included in the Model.