This research was done from March of 2009 to
November of 2009 in Behbahan County from Khuzestan
Province in Iran. The population of this study consisted of
7314 farmers of Behbahan county of Khuzestan province
in Iran. 208 farmers were selected by Stratified Sampling.
The instrument was for data collection was questionnaire
that consists of two sections. Section one had 24
statements of the sustainable agriculture. Five point Likert
scale ranged from 1 = strongly disagree to 5 = strongly
agree. Meanwhile, some of the statements were designed
negative. The highest possible value for the general
perception in this scale was 120 and the lowest 24. Higher
values indicated positive attitude toward sustainable
agriculture concepts. Section two contained demographic
information, asking farmers' age, years of experience,
level of education, literacy, agrarian land and etc.,
Questionnaire reliability was estimated by calculating
Cronbach's alpha, which was 0.78. Group of respondents
for their attitude regarding sustainable agriculture
concepts was used by the interval standard deviation from
mean