Prioritization and Evaluation of Effective Criteria on Rural Sustainability with an Emphasis on Agricultural Production (Case Study: Villages of Qazvin Province)
Subject Areas : RUSTAEI
Vahid Bigdeli Rad
1
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Department of Urban Planning, Qazvin Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qazvin, Iran
)
Shahram Maleki
2
(
Department of Urban Planning, Qazvin Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qazvin, Iran
)
Keywords: agricultural production, Qazvin Province, Support of Production, Removal of Barriers to Production, Rural Sustainability,
Abstract :
In addition to being the source of financial and livelihood resources for villagers, the agricultural production sector has the greatest impact in providing the country's strategic products; Therefore, in order to maintain and develop this sector, there is a need for the stability of rural areas based on a suitable approach. Based on this, in the current research, by using library resources and the opinions of rural affairs experts, criteria with the approach of supporting and removing obstacles from agricultural production, and then using the method of hierarchical analysis and Expert Choice software was used to evaluate and prioritize them. The results showed that the criterion of support has a higher priority than the criterion of removing obstacles to production. Also, among the production support sub-criteria, on-time payment of products with 16.4 percent and among the production prevention sub-criteria, mediation in the sales chain with 18.7 percent have more important priority. In addition, the villages of Alborz city have had a favorable situation in terms of production support components, with 20.2%. Also, in measuring the situation of eliminating production obstacles, the villages of Qazvin city have a better situation with a weight of 19.7%. On the other hand, the villages of Auj city are the least privileged in both criteria. In the end, the examination of the results showed the need to pay more attention to supporting and removing obstacles to agricultural production in Auj city. The main reason for this is the location of this city in the less developed region of Qazvin province, especially in terms of ease of access to the central regions of the province.
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