Relationship agriculture with rural development) case study of:towhnship zarindasht)

Subject Areas : Urban and Regional Planning Studies

mohsen shayan ¹ , Ahmad taghdisi ²

1 - دانشجوی دکترای جغرافیا و برنامه ریزی روستایی، دانشگاه سیستان و بلوچستان، زاهدان، ایران
2 - استادیار جغرافیا و برنامه ریزی روستایی، دانشگاه اصفهان، اصفهان، ایران

Received: 2016-01-10 Accepted : 2016-09-14 Published : 2016-09-20

Keywords: Rural Development, Agricultural Development, twon ship Zarrindasht,

Abstract :

Todays, most of the researchers and scientists consider agricultural development as the main strategy for the rural development and believe that as the main source of income and an employment opportunity, agriculture plays a key role in rural development. Therefore, this study aimed to analyze and evaluate rural development given the state of the agricultural sector and how the two systems (rural development and agricultural development) interact and influence on each other, which was conducted as a case study in rural areas of Zarrindasht. The study is conducted in the form of applied research and the method used is descriptive - analytic and the data collection is based on the use of questionnaires and interviews. The population of the investigation is the heads of rural households in 23 villages is the city of Zarrindasht. Using Cochran Formula, a sample of 348 people were calculated and selected through stratified sampling. The villages are selected based on the number of occupants in agriculture. Reliability of the questioners was calculated at a rate of 0/75 using Cronbach's alpha. In addition, the Factor analysis was used to analyze the date.  The results of the analysis shows that the effects on the economic, tourism and physical conditions are the most important impact of agriculture on rural development and the factor of services and agricultural technology is the most important impact of rural development on the status of agriculture. Also, there is a significant and positive correlation between rural development and agricultural development of the level of farmers' agricultural information in the sense that improvement of one factor leads that the other factors to improve.