Strategic Research Journal of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources

Strategic Research Journal of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources

Status quo search of Agricultural Extension and Education Eco-compatible Technologies in Iran

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Iraj Malakmohammadi 1
ismail shahbazi 2
ٍE. Karmi 3
Sirous Salmanzadeh 4
Saeed Yazdani 5
Arash Dourandish 6
1 Jalal-e-ale Ahmad, Pole Gish Shahrak, Nasim Danesh, Blk 30, 1st floor
2 Professor of Shahid Beheshti University
3 Professor of Shiraz University
4 Professor of Agricultural Extension and Education, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz
5 Professor of Agricultural Economics, University of Tehran
6 Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Agricultural Economics
10.22047/srjasnr.2021.140580
Abstract
What torments Iran’s Agricultural Sector is the mere technocratism aspect with no regard to the other dimensions of development. Technocrats with their single and limited dimension just are in favor of technology application and its advantages regardless of the actual problems often these technologies create in the sector as well as in the society. Agricultural extension and education, the twin complementary educational sub-sector, the only dual dimension expertise in human resource development that from one hand use information communication technology and in the other hand understanding, applying and disseminating production technologies , are acting as the agricultural development vehicle. This qualitative investigation was after the status quo search of agricultural extension and education eco-compatible technologies in Iran using focus group methodology and applying documentary longitudinal descriptive analytical technique. Findings discussed, purified, combined and analyzed in the focus group (the Agricultural Economic and Extension Education Branch of the Iran Academy of Sciences) in terms of specialized, advance agricultural extension and education eco-compatible technologies. Findings reviled at least 18 agricultural extension technology or module, among them Internet of Things (IoT), which is applicable only when precise agriculture and low impute agricultural modules are mass developed and applied.
Keywords
: Extension technology
Agricultural Education technology
Eco-compatible technology
Internet of Things
Precise Agriculture

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Strategic Research Journal of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources
Volume 6, Issue 2
November 2021
Pages 185-202