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QUESTIONNAIRE FOR INTERVIEWING RURAL PEOPLE WITH PHYSICAL DISABILITIES ABOUT THEIR CURRENT AND POTENTIAL AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES

The interview

The interviewer

The interviewee

The disability

The agricultural business

• What kinds of tools do you usually use to facilitate your work in agriculture?
• What is your main source of income?
• How do you secure any income shortfall?
• In which fields of agricultural activities do you have ability and skills?

Nature of employment

• Are you self-employed, waged, or a mixture of both?

• If you are self-employed, how do you hold your farmland, orchard, woods, pasture and/or workshop

• (ownership, rental, partnership, other - please specify)?

Seasonality

• Is your agricultural work seasonal, periodic, temporary or throughout the year?
• In any of the first three cases, please specify the months.

Experience and skills

• Do you need to acquire experience and skills?
• If not, how have you acquired your existing experience and skills in agriculture?

Training situation

• Have you already received training?

• If so, when, for how long, by whom and in which areas have you been trained?

• How, and with the help of whom, have you been engaged in agricultural activities?

• Which system(s), organization(s) and/or person(s) support(s) you financially in the process of agricultural activities?

• Which system(s), organization(s) and/or person(s) guide(s) you technically in the process of agricultural activities?

• Which system(s), organization(s) and/or person(s) encouraged you to begin and continue with your agricultural activities?

Training problems and suggestions

• What technical and professional problems and difficulties do you face in the process of agricultural activities?

• What kind of training do you suggest would help you to solve your technical problems and professional difficulties?

• What economic problems and difficulties do you face in the process of agricultural production?

• What kind of facilities and opportunities would help you to solve your agriculture-related economic problems and difficulties?

• What social problems and difficulties do you face in the process of agricultural activities?

• What kind of training and opportunities would help you to solve your social problems and difficulties?

• What difficulties does your physical disability create for you in the process of agricultural activities?

• What facilities and training would remove or reduce your physical difficulties in agricultural activities?

• What kind of training, in which areas of agriculture, would help you to improve your knowledge and skill in agricultural activities?

Awareness and expectations of existing services

• Do you know the Centre for Agricultural Services?

• If so, what sort of assistance have you received from the centre?

• Do you know your county agricultural extension agent from the Ministry of Agriculture?

• If so, how many times have you met him/her, and how many times have you participated in training sessions?

• Do you know the Jihad Sazandegi County Training Centre?

• If so, what sort of assistance have you received from the centre?

• Do you know your county rural extension agent from the Ministry of Jihad Sazandegi?

• If so, how many times have you met him/her, and how many times have you participated in training sessions?

• What do you expect from the Centre for Agricultural Services?

• What do you expect from the County Training Centre of Jihad Sazandegi?

Training and other recommendations

• If agricultural and rural extension agents served you with special extension and education programmes, which priority items would you suggest should be included in their training programmes?

• Where would you like to receive the extension training you have suggested: at the extension office, at the training centre, at your home, at your farm, at your workshop, or elsewhere (please specify)?

• Would you like to receive extension training through: radio, television, film, publications, classes and lectures, demonstrations, individual guidance, other (please specify)?

• Once you have received appropriate training, what do you expect institutions and government organizations to provide to help you put your newly acquired knowledge into practice: production credit, supporting loans, primary inputs, storage services, agricultural marketing services, land, pasture, animals of improved breeds, improved inputs, agricultural tools and equipment, special tools and equipment to improve your physical capacity and facilitate your movement, non-material protection, psychological support, other (please specify)?

• Please mention any general suggestions and/or recommendations with regard to the improvement and usefulness of technical extension training programmes for physically disabled people engaged in agriculture.

QUESTIONNAIRE FOR INTERVIEWING THE NEAREST RELATIVES OF PEOPLE WITH PHYSICAL DISABILITIES ENGAGED IN AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES

The interview

The interviewer

The interviewee

The relative with physical disabilities and assistance

• Why do you help your physically disabled relative?

• In what ways and how do you help your physically disabled relative?

• How long have you been helping him/her?

• What are the main agricultural activities that your physically disabled relative is engaged in?

• What difficulties does he/she face in agricultural activities?

• How willing is your physically disabled relative to accept your help: very, considerably, somewhat, slightly, other (please specify)?

• How willing is your physically disabled relative to accept your guidance in agricultural activities: very, considerably, somewhat, slightly, other (please specify)?

• Have you received any special training in order to assist your physically disabled relative?

• If so, when, for how long, on what subjects and from whom?

• How willing is your physically disabled relative to accept other people’s guidance in agricultural activities: very, considerably, somewhat, slightly, other (please specify)?

• What experience have you gained so far of guiding and helping your physically disabled relative (please be specific)?

• Who has encouraged, guided and/or helped you to assist your physically disabled relative with agricultural activities: other relatives, non-governmental organizations and government agencies?

• In what way have they helped and why?

• What do you expect people, non-governmental organizations, institutions and government agencies to provide to help physically disabled people continue their agricultural activities (please explain)?

• In your opinion, which agricultural activities can your physically disabled relative perform most satisfactorily, and which ones present her/him with the most difficulty?

QUESTIONNAIRE FOR INTERVIEWING AGRICULTURAL AND RURAL EXTENSION AGENTS AND EXPERTS IN THE STUDY REGION

The interview

The interviewer

The interviewee

Work with rural people with physical disabilities

• In the region(s) where you serve, what kind of physical disabilities do you see most among rural farmers, male and female?

• According to your estimation, what percentage of your region’s total population of farmers is disabled?

• What are the main agricultural activities of physically disabled people?

• Are you satisfied with the current performance of physically disabled farmers (please give reasons for your reply)?

• What have you done so far in order to guide and train the physically disabled persons engaged in agricultural activities in your region, as directed by your national extension service?

• Taking account of the frequency and nature of physical disabilities among the rural people in your region, what would you recommend non-governmental organizations, institutions and government agencies do to help disabled farmers to continue their agricultural activities? Please specify and explain your answers with regard to each of the following:

  i) Provision of tools and equipment to facilitate disabled people’s agricultural work.

  ii) Provision of capital for disabled farmers’ engagement and/or continuation in agricultural activities (please specify purposes for which such capital should be used).

  iii) Provision of special extension education programmes for disabled farmers and/or their nearest relatives (please give precise proposals).

  iv) Provision of inputs, credit, loans, land, animals, etc. to disabled farmers so that their agricultural activities can flourish.

  v) Formation of rural agricultural cooperatives, associations or groups of disabled farmers, in order to encourage physically disabled people to engage in agriculture and to support their agricultural activities technically and financially.

• What education and training programmes do you suggest would improve the knowledge and skills of agricultural extension field workers, so that they could guide physically disabled people more effectively and efficiently?

• Which extension training methods would you recommend for training physically disabled people more effectively (please mention only the title of the methods).

• What administrative facilities do you recommend be provided to extension field workers so that they can train their physically disabled clients in agricultural activities more efficiently?

• What kind of organizational structure would you recommend be established and/or developed to institutionalize special extension training programmes for the physically disabled people engaged in agricultural activities?

• As far as you know, what government institutions, non-governmental organizations and societies are engaged and active in the agricultural training of physically disabled people (please mention only the names of the agencies).