راهكارهاي اشاعه اطلاعات كشاورزي بر پايه فن آوري اطلاعات (IT) در نظام كشاورزي ايران (بر اساس ديدگاه كارشناسان ترويج كشاورزي استان خوزستان)

Agricultural information dissemination approaches based information technology (IT) in agricultural system of Iran (perception of extension experts of Khouzestan)

The purpose of the study reported here was designing Information Dissemination System (IDS) based Information Technology (IT) in agricultural of Iran. A questionnarie was developed to designing Information Dissemination System. The questionnarie was distributed to 75 extensiion agents who work for Management of Extension and Farming System of Khuzestan province of Iran. Data collected were analyzed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). Appropriate statistical procedures for description (frequencies, percent, means and standard deviations) were used. According to extension agents five factors were ranked respectively as five top essential items to designing Information Dissemination System (IDS) based Information Technology (IT) in agricultural of Iran. These factors inculde:l) Establish communication between farmers, coordinators (extension agents), agricultural experts, research centers, and community by information technology: 2) The communication between all should be mutual:3) The information must be based farmers need:4) Internet used as a facility to transfer the advanced agricultural information to the farming community: 5) Farmers can be illiterate and speak to conducting research, desire to scientific practices, participation to research attitude regarding Information Technology.