Agricultural Economics

Agricultural Economics

Promoters and Inhibitors of Apiculture development in Soume Sara County

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors
Soghra Hasanipour 1
Mohammad Sadegh Allahyari 2
ّFatemeh Askari Bozayeh 3
1 Graduated with a master's degree in agricultural management, Islamic Azad University, Rasht, Iran.
2 Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural Management, Islamic Azad University, Rasht, Iran
3 Researcher, Economic, Social and Extension Research Department, Gilan Agricultural and Natural Resources Research and Education Center, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization(AREEO), Rasht, Iran
10.22034/iaes.2023.2012886.2024
Abstract
As a useful and effective creature in agriculture, job creation, nutrition and economy, the honey bee has a privileged position in the Iran's agriculture and animal husbandry sector; therefore, by adopting appropriate methods, while developing the beekeeping industry, any problems and disturbances in the development process of this industry should be prevented and its development and expansion should be provided. In this research, force field analysis, which is Kurt Levin's model, has been used to identify the inhibiting and promoting factors.. This research has been done in three rounds. The statistical population consisted of the beekeepers and the experts of Agricultural Jihad Organization, from whom; fifteen samples were selected by purposive sampling. Summarizing the inhibiting and promoting factors of the first round led to the identification of 27 promoting and 42 inhibiting factors, which were divided into four groups: cultural-social, economic, technical-special and managerial-infrastructural. The second round analysis related to cultural-social and managerial-infrastructural factors showed that promoting forces are stronger than that of inhibiting; whereas, in the analysis related to the economic and technical-special factor, inhibiting forces are stronger than that of promoting. The results of the third round showed that inhibiting is stronger than the promoting forces. In general, the scores of inhibiting factor are higher than promoting; That is, the power of the inhibiting forces is greater than the promoting and they put more pressure on the beekeepers.
Keywords
Promoter factors
Inhibitor factors
Apiculture development
Someh Sara

Subjects

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