the effective factors in nutritional management knowledge and a proper educational plan for broiler farmers, a case study in garmsar township

The study was conducted to determine the effective factorsin nutritional management knowledge and design a propereducational plan for broiler farmers in garmsar township. theused methodological approach was descriptive-correlation.eighty-eight questionnaires were collected and analyzed of 98broiler farmers active in garmsar. the content and face validityof the questionnaires and reliability of analysis were respectivelyspecified and calculated according to guide, and cronbachalpha coefficient was calculated ?=0.86 for the whole usingspss software. results indicated that role of extension methodsin increasing the knowledge was very low to very high betweenthe different methods. the correlation analysis indicatedsignificant and positive relationships for farm capacity, incomelevel, exhibitive educational methods and survey of modernfarms with thefarmers’ knowledge. results of multiple regressionanalysis as step by step indicated that two variables of exhibitiveand survey educational methods explain significantly 56.2 percentagesof the total variance. therefore, the regression equationwas: the plan = 0.664 (exhibitive method) + 0.292 (surveymethod). in conclusion, best educational plan is education ofappropriate literatures with emphasis on the priorities via bestmethods especially exhibitive and survey methods.