Evaluation of The Training Course Carried Out by ICARDA in The Conservation Agriculture for Some Agricultural Employees in The Northern Region- Iraq

The research aims to evaluate the level of training in general from the point view of the trainees representing some of the agricultural employees working in the northern region. To evaluate the level of training in each of the field of training : Trainees' competence - the subject of conservation agriculture - training methods and aids - the environment of the implementation of training and in each criteria of each field criteria, and then finding the effect of all trainees' characteristics in the evaluation of training level, to determine the differences in the level of training and finding the effect of all trainees' characteristics, as well as identify the problems that facing trainees at the course, and the suggestions made by the trainees. The research included all the trainees in the ICARDA training course on the subject of conservation agriculture, which is 25 trainees data were collected through a questionnaire after verifying its validity and reliability then analyzed by using the Regression, the Mann-Whiteny test, the Kruskall-Wallis test, the results showed that the level of training was high in general and that the field of competence of trainers came in first rank with a percentage of 56%, while the field of conservation agriculture ranked last with 89.5%,and the impact factor for the all trainees characters is 16% .The results showed no significant differences in the evaluation of training level according to the different characteristics of the trainees for each one, and the most important problems encountered by the trainees in the training course: the short period of reporting by the date of the beginning of the course, shortened the number of days of the course. The most important proposals of the trainees: the establishment of training courses in places where the technology is already applied, focus on the participatory approach used in the course and continued use it in the next courses. 
  
 