تحليل و سنجش بهره وري فعاليت هاي ترويج زنبورداري حوزه آبي خزر

Analysis and Measuring Apiculture Extension Productivity in Caspian Zone

"Agricultural Extension Productivity" as a sustainable process are combined of efficiency, effectiveness, intellectual orientation and attention to the standard quality levels for the system that have to be consider its goal in obtaining maximum benefits and potentials regarding to current resources and facilities. Such organized process requires an extensive awareness from all effective factors in productivity improvement and increase from which the achieved results can be available for planners, policy-makers ana administrators. This research its goal is to measuring and calculation of productivity, effective determinates encountering and correlation between them. The geographic extent of this research was Caspian zone include Gilan and Mazandaran province, its subject extent was "Extension Productivity", and also time extent was two years ago and recent year (2003-2005) and accomplishment time of thesis was October 2003 to September 2005. This study is an ex-post fact and applied research. Analysis domain, were correlation and causal - correlative. The facility of data collecting, have been two questionnaires. One to study "Bee keepers" and the other measure attitudes of "Extension agents and experts of Extension and Agricultural Jihad services centers". Sampling method for bee keepers was "Random Stratified" and for service centers was "Cluster" form. Number of samples for these societies was 315 bee keepers and 34 service centers respectively. Analysis statistics are Correlation analysis, Comparative experiments and Measuring productivity using Index approach and Partial productivity, Tolaf productivity and Comparative. 34 in 40 hypothesis of this research were correlation form and the rest were comparative. Experiments in this study included t-test, Mann-whitney and Kruskal-wallis. Extension productivity coefficient for comparing the income of two groups (educated and uneducated) was 3.97. This coefficient and analysis results of average levels comparison showed educated and uneducated bee keepers have not significant different in costs, income ana efficiency