Effective factors that influence agricultural sustainability-A case study of the Greater Dezful rural system in Iran
Journal Title: International Journal of Farming and Allied Sciences - Year 2013, Vol 2, Issue 15
Abstract
Agricultural sustainability is emerging as one of the pre-requisites for socio-economic and rural regeneration. This is to ensure crop production while taking appropriate measures to protect the environmental integrity. The paper aims at investigating the factors in which influence the sustainability of crop production and rural regeneration in the Greater Dezful rural system. The methodology involved descriptive-survey of a random sample consisting of 220 selected from the crop growers by administration of survey questionnaires, the data of which were analyzed by application of Cochran' formula within the SPSS environment Results show that measures to achieve crop production sustainability with an strong emphasis on environmental protection and eco-system integrity is very crucial from the points of view of the stakeholders in the rural system. It was found that the whole constellation of factors that can contribute to rural growth through institutionalization of the crop production sustainability can be achieved by measures to enhance five agricultural-production-related components namely, social-participation, infrastructural support services, ecological, agronomical and economical productivity that comprised of 22 associated variables in Greater Dezful rural system showing over 75% variance.
Authors and Affiliations
Farzaneh Afzalinia, Najaf Hedayat and Mohammad Reza Bosshaq
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