Rural Development Strategies

Analysis of factors affecting the employment of agricultural sector Farmers in non-agricultural activities in Sabzevar city

Document Type : Original Research

Authors

Arash Dourandish 1
Mahdieh Salari 2
Mahmood Daneshvar 3
Fatameh sakhi 4

1 Agricultural Economicd

2 Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

3 Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran

4 Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Resources

https://doi.org/10.22048/rdsj.2024.395466.2097
Abstract
In recent years, the non-agricultural sector has been recognized as a tool to reduce rural poverty and create employment for the rural labor. In Iran, non-agricultural activities in rural areas due to recent droughts, water resources crisis and the tendency of rural youth to non-agricultural activities has grown so much that according to the census of Population and housing in 2017, 49.7% of rural employees have been employed in the non-agricultural sector. This study investigates the factors affecting on employment of farmers in non-agricultural activities in Sabzevar city. Data were obtained of simple random available sampling method from 208 farmers in this city in the year 2021-2022 and were analyzed using the logit model.The results showed that 112 people of farmers had non-agricultural activities, of which about 19.6% had government activities, 30.4% were private, and the largest number of farmers are freely engaged in non-agricultural activities. The results of the logit model showed that factors, including the level of education and the number of members of the farmer's household, have a positive effect, and the variables of the age of the farmer, the cultivation level, the experience of agricultural activity, the diversity of agricultural activity and the amount of agricultural income have a negative effect on farmers' employment in non-agricultural activity. The government take action by raising the level of technical and skill abilities of villagers by providing technical and professional education services in accordance with the creation of entrepreneurship in rural areas at the level of schools and universities.

Keywords

Agricultural Income
Employment
Logit Binary Model

Subjects

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