The role of agricultural activities risk management in improvement of economic indexes in the rural families Case study: City of Gorgan

Subject Areas : Regional Planning

Ali Akbar Najafi Kani ¹ (Assistant Professor, Geography, University of Golestan)
Bahman Sahneh ² (Assistant Professor, Geography, University of Golestan, Gorgan, Iran.)
Mohsen Akhlaghi ³ (M.A. Geography and Rural Planning)

Received: 2017-10-05 Accepted : 2018-09-07 Published : 2018-09-23

Keywords: Agricultural Development, risk management, rural families, agricultural risk, city of Gorgan,

Abstract :

Nowadays, considering the fact that because of damaging natural events, every agricultural activity faces dangers, planning to decrease risks and increase investment security ratio is essential and unavoidable. This study is an applied survey, it uses field study, and the data was collected by the use of questionnaires. The studied statistical population was 33046 rural families out of which 253 families were selected according to Cochrane’s formula. The share of each one of the ten villages in the central and Baharan regions was determined according to their populations. Then, the questionnaires were distributed among the families by the use of random simple/systematic method. The data was analyzed and measured by the use of tests such as correlation analysis (Ki Score and Spearman), Kruskal Wallis and variance analysis in SPSS environment. The achieved results show that there is up to 99% significant relationship between agricultural activities risk management with most of the environmental elements and with natural disasters such as drought, flood, cold, etc. In addition to that, risk management has been effective on the productivity of agricultural activities, and consequently, on biological quality improvement of rural families. The effectiveness level of the environmental factors and natural disasters on agricultural risk management in the plain rural areas, mountainous areas and hillsides of Gorgan has significant difference up to 99%. Accordingly, presenting key solutions to decrease risk before guaranteed purchase of crops, crops insurance, paying facilities to farmers, holding training and propagation courses are inevitable.

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