Rural Development
Zoleikha Naderkhan; Skandar Seidaiy
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Creating industry in rural areas that have potential can be the best strategy for empowering rural areas. Industry is capable of developing rural areas through employment, income generation and welfare. Since the Angouran section has the largest lead and zinc mines in the Middle East, it has created ...
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Creating industry in rural areas that have potential can be the best strategy for empowering rural areas. Industry is capable of developing rural areas through employment, income generation and welfare. Since the Angouran section has the largest lead and zinc mines in the Middle East, it has created the necessary conditions for the establishment of several companies in the region which excavate and process these metal materials. These companies are big industries and have created a lot of employment opportunities in the region. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the impacts of lead and zinc companies on the economic and social development of rural Angouran. To achieve this goal, descriptive-analytical method was used and the method of data collection was field work. The statistical population of the study is all of the rural heads of households in the Angouran region. The research tool is a questionnaire that consists of 300 questions and the data were analyzed using the SPSS software package. According to the results, these companies have a significant impact on increasing literacy, health and social welfare in the social dimension and increasing income and savings, creating new job opportunities and attracting urban capital in the economic dimensions of life. The negative consequences of these companies have been in the social dimension, i.e. decline of young people's interest in agriculture and decline of labor force in the agricultural sector. Its negative impacts in the economic dimension is increased consumerism of households and rising land prices.
Rural Development
Yousef Darvishi
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Implementation of the Rural Development Plan aimed at providing a platform for rural revitalization and social, economic, physical and environmental aspects and equity and appropriate facilities, would provide relative prosperity and quality of life for villagers. The purpose ...
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Implementation of the Rural Development Plan aimed at providing a platform for rural revitalization and social, economic, physical and environmental aspects and equity and appropriate facilities, would provide relative prosperity and quality of life for villagers. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effects of rural development plans on the quality of life of rural households in Ardabil city. The research method used in this study is descriptive-analytical and the statistical population of this study includes all heads of households living in rural areas of Ardabil city (6881 households). Simple random sampling method was selected and evaluated. The validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by relevant experts and its reliability was confirmed by pre-test and Cronbach's alpha coefficient (0.74). Statistical analysis of research data was performed using statistical software package (SPSS) and statistical tests of factor analysis and correlation analysis. In order to evaluate the factors affecting the quality of rural life, 15 variables were tested in three components using factor analysis model. The results of factor analysis showed that 68.49% of the total variance was attributed to the social and economic dimension affecting the quality of life of the villagers. Credit and financial services, security against natural disasters, poverty alleviation and motivation for career development are the four main factors affecting the quality of life in the study area. The lines dedicated to the rural development plan should not only focus on the autopsy of the villages but also a different plans must be appended on the social, economic and environmental conditions of different villages appended to it.
Rural Development
Karim Mohammadi; Mahnaz Mohammadzadeh Nasirabadi; Tahereh Sharghi
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Tourism is one of the most important activities that have played a special role in the economic development of some countries in recent decades. The expansion of tourism can lead to a fair distribution of income at the national level, especially in the countryside. This can also somewhat contribute to ...
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Tourism is one of the most important activities that have played a special role in the economic development of some countries in recent decades. The expansion of tourism can lead to a fair distribution of income at the national level, especially in the countryside. This can also somewhat contribute to sustainable development in all parts of the country by filling the development gap between different regions of the country (especially in the villages). The purpose of this study is to identify factors affecting sustainable development of rural tourism in the Zorabad village in the eastern Alamut district of Qazvin. The statistical population of this study consists of 400 rural tourism activists. 112 individuals were selected using Cochran statistic and random sampling. In the present study, the main instrument for data collection was a questionnaire whose face validity was confirmed by experts and its reliability was confirmed by Cronbach's alpha coefficient (0.89). According to the results, five factors of rural potential, public participation, employment development, and governmental, cultural and social support for sustainable tourism development were identified.
Rural Development
Neda Baniasadi; Davoud Samari; Seyyed Jamal Farajollah Hosseini; Maryam Omidi Najafabadi
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One of the solutions for agricultural development is the creation of conversion and complementary industries with the aim of preventing crop waste in agricultural development and rural entrepreneurship. Considering that one of the problems currently faced by date conversion and complementary industries ...
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One of the solutions for agricultural development is the creation of conversion and complementary industries with the aim of preventing crop waste in agricultural development and rural entrepreneurship. Considering that one of the problems currently faced by date conversion and complementary industries in the Kerman province is the lack of innovation in these industries and the consequent lack of sufficient market share in the domestic and global markets has failed to contribute to employment and entrepreneurship for the region. For this purpose, the present study presents a focal strategy for development of conversion and complementary industries in the rural areas of Bam by using the SWOT method, survey and field studies. The results show that defense strategy (WT) is at the top of strategies in the development of conversion and complementary industries. Because of the region's high capacities, the threshold of innovation and creativity in the rural conversion sector needs to be revised and appropriate policies must be developed to address the constraints and use of existing rural and agricultural capabilities.
Rural Development
Mortea Alahyari; Abolfazl Tavassoli; Mohammad Reza Naghavi
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A research study with direct observational survey was used in order to study the factors influencing migration of villagers in the Charoymaq county – Iran. This study focused on the role of agriculture and the open-ended and closed-ended questionnaire technique were used. The sampling method ...
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A research study with direct observational survey was used in order to study the factors influencing migration of villagers in the Charoymaq county – Iran. This study focused on the role of agriculture and the open-ended and closed-ended questionnaire technique were used. The sampling method used in this study was random cluster sampling and the total number of statistical samples used was chosen to be 200 according to Cochran's test. After collecting data from the questionnaires, descriptive and inferential statistical methods were used for data analysis. According to the results of non-parametric tests to investigate the effect of differences in variables related to individual characteristics including age, sex, education and previous occupation of immigrants on migration status, it was found that all variables are significant. In other words, these factors have a significant effect on migration rate. The main reasons for migration of all the people surveyed were problems in the field of agriculture and labor difficulties and the lack of supportive aspects. On the other hand, although migration in men (53%) is higher than women (16.7%), percentage interest in migration among men (21.3%) is lower than women (41.7%). These results are due to the fact that hardships of life in the countryside and traditional life of agricultures are greater than in that of urban life as women feel. According to the results, the main reasons for migration of Charoymaq villagers to cities are unemployment and low income in villages (38.5%), lack of welfare, health and educational facilities (33.5%) and lack of land and sufficient capital for agriculture (10%). According to Friedman’s test, in order to assess the effect of each factor on immigration, regardless of classification in terms of economic, social, cultural, infrastructural, demographic and environmental factors, in general, they were ranked 47 and overall, more employment opportunities rank first. Moreover, among these factors, drought and water scarcity in the region have also been cited as important factors, and more unemployment in the village appears to be due to a lack of proper agricultural management. In general, due to the pressure on the villagers during the recent droughts to provide the required water in the agricultural sector and lack of investment in controlling surface waters and extracting groundwater has had a major impact on migration. It is suggested that more attention be paid to management and investment in this regard.
Rural Development
َArastoo yasri hesar
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This paper aims to survey of tourism relationship with social well-being of villagers in the Ardabil County. This study is descriptive - analytical in terms of research methods, practical in terms of nature and is a library and field kind of research in terms of the type of data collection. The tool ...
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This paper aims to survey of tourism relationship with social well-being of villagers in the Ardabil County. This study is descriptive - analytical in terms of research methods, practical in terms of nature and is a library and field kind of research in terms of the type of data collection. The tool used in measuring the questionnaire was made by the researcher. It can be said that studied population in this study consists of all villagers living in rural areas of Ardabil County in 2017 (N= 85053), among which 385 persons were selected as statistical sample using Cochran formula. Sample size was determined based on the Cochran’s formula and the required data were collected through questionnaires. Content validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by professors and experts and its reliability was determined based on Cronbach's alpha (0.84-0.93). For data analysis, SPSS software was used. The results of research showed that there was a statistically significant positive relationship between social actualization, social acceptance, social contribution, and social cohesion and development of rural tourism. Finally, based on the results analysis, some applied recommendations have been provided.
Rural Development
sajedeh karimi
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Villages need to pay more attention to the role of information technology in order to achieve their proper performance, especially in terms of job performance and human development, amongst village councilors and rural councils. The purpose of the present study is to investigate how human development, ...
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Villages need to pay more attention to the role of information technology in order to achieve their proper performance, especially in terms of job performance and human development, amongst village councilors and rural councils. The purpose of the present study is to investigate how human development, and job performance, are based on information technology among the villagers and the Islamic councils of the villages of Natanz. The present study will use descriptive, analytical research methods. This research is also applied-developmental in terms of purpose. The statistical population of the study consisted of 150 people in the villages of Natanz in the central part of the county of Natanz, consisting of village leaders and Islamic councils. The research instrument consisted of a researcher-made questionnaire (Information Technology, Human Development and Job Performance Questionnaire) with 38 questions. The validity of the questionnaire was formal and structural, and its reliability was confirmed by Cronbach's alpha of 0.81. Data analysis was performed based on structural equation analysis in Smart PLS software. The results indicate that, in general, information technology has had an impact on human development, and job performance among the village councilors and village councils in the city of Natanz. The value of T 5.33, IT influenced job performance with path coefficient of 0.44 and T value of 7.17.
Rural Development
Masoud Alipanah; faezeh gharari
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This research was conducted to evaluate and compare the performance of a hybrid silkworm breeding with three varieties of mulberry leaves. This hybrid as a basic hybrid maternal Japanese are rearing in provinces of Khorasans. In this study, the hybrids with different levels of leaves from Kenmochi with ...
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This research was conducted to evaluate and compare the performance of a hybrid silkworm breeding with three varieties of mulberry leaves. This hybrid as a basic hybrid maternal Japanese are rearing in provinces of Khorasans. In this study, the hybrids with different levels of leaves from Kenmochi with red fruit، native berry withe whit fruit and black berry was examined. The parameters measured were: feed intak, feed digestion, the consumption ability, feed digestability, conversion ratio, cocoon weigh, special number of cocoon, specific cocoon weight, weight of usless cocoon, efficiency of feed consumption to cocoon shell, efficiency of digestive feeding to cocoon shell weight, efficiency 0f digestive feeding to cocoon weight and efficiency of feed consumption to cocoon weight. The results showed silkworms that consumed leaves of kenmochi had better performance. Also, they had better performance for traits special number cocoon, especially cocoon weight, cocoon shell weight, feed efficiency to cocoon shell weight, feed efficiency to cocoon weight.
Rural Development
Fatemeh Ganjbakhsh; Mahdi KOLAHI
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The resident life sustainability is very threatened despite the sole proprietorship and high potential of the natural resources of Seyyed Ali Watershed in the Razavi district of Mashhad County, Khorasan_Razavi Province, Iran, and also due to the deprivation and severe poverty. The research aims to investigate ...
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The resident life sustainability is very threatened despite the sole proprietorship and high potential of the natural resources of Seyyed Ali Watershed in the Razavi district of Mashhad County, Khorasan_Razavi Province, Iran, and also due to the deprivation and severe poverty. The research aims to investigate different aspects of sustainable rurality as well as to analyze the natural benefits to achieve relative independence in the livelihood. The statistical population was all individuals above 18, living in the watershed. The required data and information were collected through three methods, including field survey, in-depth interviews with residents as well as completing forms and researcher-made questionnaires. The results indicate that the residents of the basin are a family community. The village lacks almost all infrastructure facilities. Based on the results, the variables of natural attraction, fate, social cohesion, and social participation were the main factors affecting sustainable rurality. Poor health, low income, poor nutrition, low literacy, and the young population were the causes of underdevelopment. Surveys showed that the watershed has a high potential for investment. Besides, the potential for alternative livelihoods is high that can contribute to the livelihood and socio-biological life of the region. However, watershed residents must interact with institutions, particularly entrepreneurship and rural development.
Rural Development
Homayon Farhadian; mina hoseinian
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The aim of this study was to investigate the amount of economic, social, psychological, and family empowerment of rural women who are member in the microfinance credits in Sistan area in 2017. The main research tool was a researcher-made questionnaire which its validity was confirmed. The statistical ...
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The aim of this study was to investigate the amount of economic, social, psychological, and family empowerment of rural women who are member in the microfinance credits in Sistan area in 2017. The main research tool was a researcher-made questionnaire which its validity was confirmed. The statistical population of the study included 318 rural women who were members of Sistan microfinance credits. According to Morgan table, 170 subjects were selected through random cluster sampling. The results of data analysis indicated that the lowest power of the subjects was in the family dimension and their maximum power was psychological. In addition to, the economic, social, psychological, family, and the general empowerment of subjects in the role of the head of household were significantly more than those who were not head of household. Besides, there were a positive and significant correlation between variables economic, psychological and total empowerment of subjects and numbers of loan received by them. Moreover, the variables of times of receiving loan and income rate explained 31.2% of the changes in the total empowerment of the subjects. Encouragment of rural women to gain loan in order to improvement of business is one of the suggestions of the study.
Rural Development
Seyed reza hosseini kahnooj; Fatemeh narooei amiri
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Villages can play a key role in achieving the goals of a resilient economy through the absorption of a large portion of the country's resources, which requires addressing the challenges ahead. The purpose of this study was to identify and analyze the challenges facing the realization of resistive economy ...
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Villages can play a key role in achieving the goals of a resilient economy through the absorption of a large portion of the country's resources, which requires addressing the challenges ahead. The purpose of this study was to identify and analyze the challenges facing the realization of resistive economy in rural areas of Roodbarjanob descriptive-analytical method. The type of sampling in this study is stratified random. For this purpose, 7 villages with a population of over 100 and capable of agriculture (as the most important activity in the area) were selected from the settlements of this village as a total sample of 1119 According to Cochran's formula and calculating the 6% error, 167 people were selected as the sample. This process was implemented in 1396. Factor analysis was used to analyze the data and prioritize the challenges. At the end, the villages were ranked by using Prometheus software. The results showed that among the most important challenges in the realization of the resistive economy, the environmental hazard component has the highest impact factor. The results of Prometheus software showed that Aliabad and Abdul Abad villages were in the first priority with respect to the specified factor indices. Considering that these villages are the cradle of different economic talents, it is suggested to implement spinning, matting, poultry, livestock and bee projects, beeswax, various agricultural projects and medicinal plants cultivation. It could be a groundbreaking development for Brzeg in the countryside.
Rural Development
Ali Bahrami
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The excessive consumption of toxins, pesticides, and fertilizers in agriculture causes vital sources of water, soil, and food to be polluted. This problem has caused, experts to be considered energy consumption in agriculture, as one of the major environmental-threatening challenges. Energy consumption ...
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The excessive consumption of toxins, pesticides, and fertilizers in agriculture causes vital sources of water, soil, and food to be polluted. This problem has caused, experts to be considered energy consumption in agriculture, as one of the major environmental-threatening challenges. Energy consumption in crop and garden products are directly related to agricultural tillage systems. the purpose of this study was to evaluate the role of conservation agriculture systems on sustainable agriculture which, the irrigated wheat was surveyed in Hamadan province. 370 farmers were selected randomly from agricultural cooperatives. data were collected using a questionnaire and analyzed with Excel and Spss software. The findings showed that; the total input energy in the wheat production process, in the conservation tillage system, was (32GJ/h) and the output energy was (11GJ/h). the energy generated by diesel consumption with more than %42 as the main fossil fuel in the first place and fertilizer with %32 was in the second place. The results showed that; the low-tillage farming system is an important step towards optimal use of energy in agricultural production and achieving the sustainable agriculture and rural development is possible if, the principles of low conservation tillage-system are done correctly. In addition, the expansion of conservation agriculture systems, as well as using scenarios such as tax increase and monitoring systems, can reduce environmental impact and fulfill the sustainable agriculture goals.
Rural Development
Farshad Rahmani; Ali Akbar Taghiloo
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The main responsibility of those in charge of rural development is adoption of proper strategies for effective sustainable management of the various aspects of production, distribution and consumption. The aim of this study is to study resilience and flexibility of villages in terms of production, distribution ...
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The main responsibility of those in charge of rural development is adoption of proper strategies for effective sustainable management of the various aspects of production, distribution and consumption. The aim of this study is to study resilience and flexibility of villages in terms of production, distribution and consumption in different economic sectors and also explain the role of spatial organization of elements in resilience in the Cheshmeh-Sara district. The research method is descriptive-analytic. The method of collecting information is library search in documents and field study. Random sampling method was applied and the sample size was chosen to be 320 people according to Cochran’s statistical method. The data was analyzed using GIS and the SPSS software package. Spatial regression results indicate the relationship between resilience and elements of the spatial organization. The villages have more suitable lands that experienced a higher resilience, but only a few villages did not have such a situation. The least associated was the resilience of the spatial organization of the population. There has been a lot of volatility in the networks. Although Alikandi and Al-Balagh villages have the highest weight in communication networks but they have a low resilience. To this cause, its local coefficient ranged from 0.3 to 0.7. In general, the results indicate that the elements of spatial organization are resilient. The estimated local coefficient for them is 0.85, which indicates the high correlation of the entire village. Improving the quality of communication networks, creating small rural and domestic businesses, including the production of sweat, nuts, vegetable drying, dairy production that maintain the rural population, can increase rural resilience.
Rural Development
Fatemeh Gholizadeh; Mohammad Kavoosi Kalashami
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Rural tourism development can bring opportunities to rural communities such as economic growth, socio-cultural development, quality of life improvement and preservation of natural, cultural and environmental resources. So, identifying talented villages and planning for tourism development in these areas ...
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Rural tourism development can bring opportunities to rural communities such as economic growth, socio-cultural development, quality of life improvement and preservation of natural, cultural and environmental resources. So, identifying talented villages and planning for tourism development in these areas is essential. In this study, villages with tourism attractions in Lahijan County of Guilan province were studied and ranked based on 30 indices in eight general categories using information collected from management and planning organization of Guilan Province in 2018. In order to determine the weights of the understudy indices, the views of 10 experts, were analyzed using analytic hierarchy process and fuzzy analytic hierarchy process. Then, in order to prioritize the 10 selected villages of Lahijan County, additive ratio assessment, weighted aggregated sum product assessment and combined compromise solution, were used. The results of the criteria weighting showed that the criteria of natural features of the village and the economic criteria had the highest and the lowest importance, respectively. The results of three ranking methods showed that Sheikhanvar village with the tourism attractions of Sheikh-Zahed Guilani tomb and Sheikhanvar cave ranked first among all other villages. Development of tourism infrastructures in tourism target villages of Lahijan County based on the priority presented in this study can improve the tourism sector's contribution to the economy of Lahijan County.
Rural Development
Enaiat Moshfeghnejadi; Afshin Hekmati assl
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Although it is important to improve all rural areas in the process of rural development, it is more important to pay attention to disadvantaged and less privileged areas in order to meet their basic needs and mitigate their differences. The first step in the process of planning and development of rural ...
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Although it is important to improve all rural areas in the process of rural development, it is more important to pay attention to disadvantaged and less privileged areas in order to meet their basic needs and mitigate their differences. The first step in the process of planning and development of rural areas is to identify the facilities and determine the extent to which the settlements have different development opportunities. The aim of this study is to analyze and rank the levels of development and recognition of the most favored and deprived villages in Boyer Ahmad County. This is an applied study based on its purpose and descriptive-analytical based on the nature and method. The statistical population of the study is the districts of Boyerahmad County. In order to evaluate and rank the development levels of the villages, 38 indices were adjusted based on data from villages in 2016. These variables were weighted using Shannon entropy method and Topsis technique was used for data analysis. The results show that rural areas are at different levels in terms of development indicators. One district is in the relatively developed class, 3 districts are in the developing class, and the other 5 are in the relatively deprived class. In order to improve the status of rural development, it was suggested that in order to achieve balance in rural areas of the city, the attention goes to a decentralization policy in rural servicing.
