Functioning of Training Programs in Achieving to Agricultural Sustainable Development (Case: Villages of Oramanat Region in Kermanshah, Iran)

The main purpose of this study was to assessment of the role and function of training programs to accelerate of the process to achieve agricultural sustainable development in Rural Areas of Oramanat. The population of this study equal to 130 persons from rural area of Oramanat (Javanrood, Ravansar, Pave, Salas and Babajani) in Kermanshah province. This research was conducted in the framework of the applied approach with the methodology of a descriptive-analyzed research method. Based on Morgan table, 100 persons were chosen as the sample size and random sampling method were applied. Research tools include questionnaire and its validity was confirmed based on the collective opinion of the professor's universities and experts of executive organizations. The reliability of the questionnaire was calculated using Cranach’s alpha test t, α was 0.98 respectively. The research findings showed that there was significant relationship between male and female, level of education, ones that watched television training programs and those who did not watched, and also, between farmers of different cities of Oramanat to variable the effectiveness of training programs. Also, according to Kirkpatrick model from the perspective of villagers, items affecting on training programs and used of new methods of agriculture, interviews with sample farmers, confide to recommendations of experts of training program, degree of acceptance and applied to this recommendations and Transmitting educational messages to the simplest form of to farmers, were assessed at medium to high.