Identification of appropriate strategies in the field of community-support agricultural development using SWAT model in Gozeldareh village of Markazi province

Subject Areas : Agricultural Extension and Education Research

Masoud Maleklou ¹ , Seyed Mehdi Mirdamadi ² , شهاب الدین شکری ³ , Seyed Jamal Farajolah-Hosseini ⁴

1 - Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Education, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2 - Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Education, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
3 - دانشکده کشاورزی و علوم پایه، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد رودهن
4 - Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Education, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2021-11-10 Accepted : 2024-01-04 Published : 2024-06-04

Keywords: Community-Support Agriculture, SWOT, Participation,

Abstract :

Community agriculture supports a relatively new economic-social model in the production, sale and distribution of food in order to increase the quality of food products and protect the land, plants and animals. The purpose of this research is to investigate the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of community-support agriculture in the village of Gazledara in the Central Province. The current research is one of the popular applied researches that was conducted by field method and using a questionnaire. The statistical population of the research included elite and leading farmers in Gezeldare village, and the required information was collected through a questionnaire and analyzed using SPSSv.25 and Excel software. The results of the SWOT research showed that from the respondents' point of view, the most important weakness of the studied region in the field of community-support agriculture is "high production risk in agricultural work due to the climatic conditions of the region", the most important strength in the field of community-support agriculture is "the availability of water resources and Abundant and suitable soil for the development of agricultural activities in the village ", the most important opportunity for the development of community agriculture - the support "neighborhood and proximity to the markets of the big cities of Tehran, Qom and Arak and a long history of establishing commercial relations with these centers" and finally the most important threat Facing the development of community-supporting agriculture, there is a "lack of clear, efficient and up-to-date agricultural information systems to inform the market opportunities of agricultural products".