The influence of education and knowledge on the growth of the added value of the agriculture sector in Iran

In the recent y ears our country , Iran, has experienc ed a considerable amount of growth (at least in terms of quantity) in the agriculture sec tor. The question whic h is being arisen is that how much these educations could or can influenc e the augmentation of the added value in the agriculture sector; and also by taking into consideration the ev er-inc reasing amount of growth in the population and an increase in the demand for food staffs and produc ts and also by paying attention to limitations in the production factors, ac cording to the endogenous growth models, the best way to increase the performance per eac h hectare of the agriculture sec tor is paying attention to researc h and development (RandD) activities, absorption of the spillover of the research and development of the business associates and an inc rease in the charges of education and agriculture propagation in this way. The present study in the first part goes to investigate and deliberate on the v ariables of knowledge (the influenc e of the accumulation of internal and external c harges of research and dev elopment, accumulation of the cost of propagation and education) on the amount of growth in the added value of the agric ulture sec tor during the years of 1981 to 2012 and the aim of the sec ond part of this study is to scrutinize the influence of education on the added value of the agric ulture sector. Towards this aim, by means of using the statistic al data out of the general census in the agriculture sec tor in Iran in the y ears of 2013-2014 for several provinces, the influence of sev eral factors such as education on the added value of the agriculture sec tor was being sc rutinized. To measure the influence of educ ation (human resource) four yardsticks are being used whic h consist of the ratio of the educ ated persons to the total benefic iaries, the ratio of consumers with AA degrees and higher degrees in the field of agricultural scienc es to the benefic iaries, the ratio of the beneficiaries with AA degrees and higher degrees in the non-agricultural majors to the educ ated benefic iaries and a weight index based on the number of educational years of the beneficiaries. The results of the study are indicative of the minute influence of the internal researc h and dev elopment accumulation and the external researc h and dev elopment accumulation on the growth rates of the added v alue in the agriculture sector. The influence of the coeffic ient of the v ariable of propagation and educ ation in the agriculture sec tor on the growth of the added value in this sec tor is meaningful, while the c oefficient of the traditional v ariables in produc tion, accumulation of the monetary capital, and the workforce is meaningful and also through considering the influenc e of the educational variables on the added v alue of the agriculture sector, all of the four indices enjoyed a proper fitting model and the human resource index in all the regressions(models) exc ept for the third regression was meaningful and also the obtained results are indicative of the influence of educ ation on the added value of the agriculture sec tor.