Study of factors affecting on the tendency to greenhouse organic cucumber producers in Yazd province

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Assistant Professor of Economic, Social and Extension Research Department, Yazd Agricultural and Natural Resources and Education Center, AREEO, Yazd, Iran

2 Associate Professor of Agricultural Economics, Islamic Azad University, Yazd

3 Associate Professor of Seed and Plant Improvment Research Department, Yazd Agricultural and Natural Resources and Education Center, AREEO, Yazd, Iran

10.29252/aridbiom.7.2.9

Abstract

Increase in greenhouse production in Yazd province has resulted increase in consuming of fertilizer and pesticide use therfor, so it is necessary to reduce using of chemical materials in greenhouse production and increase of organic products. The aim of this study was to investigate the factors influencing process of transition to organic agriculture in greenhouse cucumber producers in Yazd province. This study was a descriptive-survey research. Data collection tools were questionnaires and face to face interviews with 144 producers of greenhouse cucumber in the province. Data analysis was done using descriptive analysis, T-test and logit econometric model. Among 144 greenhouse cucumber producers, 59 people have a positive trend to become organic farmers and 85 people showed no interest. Results showed that the low knowledge of producers in the field of organic farming, lack of sufficient support of organic farming by government, high-risk of organic farming, the lack of specific market and are the major obstacles on the way of the production of organic products. Logit model results showed that there is a significant positive relationship between the level of production experience, age, education, sanitary positive attitude towards environment and desire to have organic farming. There is a significant negative correlation between using of chemical fertilizers and pesticides and desire to have organic farming. Due to lack of knowledge in the field of technical, management and sales of organic products, government support and control of the production in this area is essential.

Keywords

References

[1]. Acs, S. (2006). Bio-economic modelling of conversion from conventional to organic farming. PhD Thesis, Wageningen University, The Netherlands, 152 pp.
 [2]. Agricultural Jahad Organization of Yazd. (2015). Agricultural statistics (in Farsi).
 [3]. Amirnezhad, H., and Rafiee, H. (2009). The effect of socio economic factors on the adoption of biological control methods in the rice fields.www.berenge.com.
[4]. Anderson, J., and Desmond, J., and  Green, R. (2005). Determinants of farmers adoption of organic production methods in the fresh-market produce sector in California, a logistic regression analysis paper provided by western agriculture economics association.  Sanfrancisco, California.
 [5]. Azami, M., Monavari Fard, F., Jeyhoni, S., and Ghadimi, A.R. (2013). The analysis of effective factors on non-accepting of organic agriculture products from the viewpoint of agricultural experts (Case Study: Alborz province). International Advanced Biological and Biomedical Reserch, 3: 272-260 (in Farsi).
 [6]. Chouichom, S., and yamao, M. (2010). Comparing opinion and attituds of organic and non-organic farmers towards organic rice farming systems in north-eastern Thiland. Journal of organic systems, 5(1): 25-35.
 [7]. Dadras, A., and Golmohamadi, F. (2008). Study of factors affecting on adoption of new technologies by Pistachio producers in southern Khorasan on website http//www.keshavarz.com (in Farsi).
[8]. Fairweather, J. R. (1998). Understanding how farmers choose between organic and conventional production: Results from New Zealand and policy implication. Journal of agriculture and human values, 16(1): 51-63.
[9]. Ghorbani, M., and Nemati, F. (2011). Investigating the factors potentially affecting demand for agricultural credit for shifting to produce organic greenhouse cucumber in Khorasan Razavi province. Iranian Environmental science journal, (3): 46-35 (in Farsi).
[10]. Gujarati, D. (1995). Principles of Econometrics (Volume 1 and 2) Translated in persian by: H. Abrishami, Tehran University Press, 2006.
[11]. Hall, K., and Rhoades, E. (2009). Ohio Grain Farmers’ Attitudes toward Organic and Non-Organic Farming Methods on website http://agnews.tamu.edu/saas/2009/hall.pdf
[12]. Irvani, H., and Darban, A.R. (2004). Measurement, Analysis and Exploitation of the Sustainability of Farming Systems, (Case Study (Wheat Production, Tehran Province) Iranian. Journal of Agricultural Science, 35(1): (in Farsi).
[13]. Lotter, D.W. (2003). Organic agriculture. Journal of Sustainable Agriculture, 21(4): 59-128.
  [14]. Maghsodi, T., and Irvani, H. (2007). Regression analysis of factors affecting on sustainability of potato production in Fereydūnshahr city. Journal of rural and development, 17: 37-42 (in Farsi).
[15]. Ministry of Agriculture, 2014. Agriculture statistics 2013, Department of Planning, Department of Statistics and Information. (in Farsi).
[16].  kings, D., and Ilbery, B. (2012). Farmers attitudes towards organic and a conventional agriculture: behavioural perspective, organic food and developments in the social sciences, drmatthew reed (ED), ISBN: 2-764-307-953-978, In Tech, Avilable at: http://intechopen.com.
[17].  Sadeghi, E., and ShokatFadai, M., and Khaledi, M. (2011). Affecting factors in the Process of Converting to Organic Farming Case Study tomato Producer in Alborz Province, Shiraz, Eighth Biennial Conferenceof Agricultural Economics Iran (in Farsi).
[18].Salami, H., and Khaledi, M. (2001). Impact of technology of biological control of rice stem borer pest on the use of pesticides in Mazandaran Province. Journal of agricultural economic and development, 33:67-81 (in Farsi).
[19]. Sholubi, Y. O., Stonehouse, D.P., and Clark, E.A. (1997). Profile of organic dairy farming in Ontario. American Journal of Alternative Agriculture, 13(3):133-139.
Journal of Arid Biome
Volume 7, Issue 2
June 2017
Pages 9-19

Files

Share

How to cite

Statistics