Assessing Sustainable Agriculture Development Status in South Khorasan, Iran using the relative advantage method and GIS

Subject Areas : rural planing

Ali Rezaie Fargadabad ¹ , kamran Mojard ²

1 - MSc Student of Remote Sensing and GIS
2 - • MSc Student of Remote Sensing and GIS, Kharazmi University, Theran, Iran

Received: 2018-07-06 Accepted : 2018-08-22 Published : 2019-08-23

Keywords: GIS, Rural Development, Sustainable Development, Agricultural Sustainability, Relative Ratio,

Abstract :

Assessing Sustainable Agriculture Development Status in South Khorasan, Iran using the relative advantage method and GIS Zoning of agriculture sustainability can be illustrated the status of sustainability in different regions and also provided the comparison capability and identification of advantage and disadvantage properties. Various variables are involved in determining sustainable agricultural development. A separate comparison of each variable changes the order of each city in the table. Therefore, in this study, using census statistics from 1380 to 1393, population censuses and housing in this period for the studied areas (South Khorasan, Iran), 60 Indicators, were divided into five major groups of agriculture resources, agriculture development, environment, rural societies, and education. The studied variables were presented and analyzed using a relative advantage and combined method insignificant factors. In the end, by using the GIS, the level of the province's cities was shown for sustainable development of the spatial analysis and the status of each of these provinces was determined in terms of sustainable agricultural development. Finally, it was shown in 6 classes (high stability, moderate stability, poor stability, poor instability, moderate instability, and high instability). In general, it can be stated that the city of Qaenat is more stable in agriculture than any other agricultural land and Ferdows is in the worst case.

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