Document Type : ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Authors

• Sefatollah Rahmani ¹
• Saeid Yazdani ²
• Aboalfazl Mahmoudi ³
• Mohsen Shoukatfadaei ⁴
• Ali Souri ⁵

¹ Ph.D. Student of Agriculture Department, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran

² استاد دانشکده کشاورزی دانشگاه تهران

³ Assistant Professor, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran

⁴ Associate Professor, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran

⁵ Associate Professor of Economic Department, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

The water shortage in most countries has caused farmers to use modern methods instead of traditional irrigation methods, have greater control over water consumption. Among the programs implemented in order to reduce water consumption and increase its productivity in the agricultural sector, is the use of pressurized irrigation method. This study aimed to determine the factors affecting the adoption and development of pressurized irrigation in Ardabil province, the required collected data in the form of questionnaires from farmers for crop year 2015-2016 and using logit regression model. The results indicate that the labor costs of water, literacy, education, income, Second career farmers, cultivation, satisfaction with administrative, expertise and credibility services, have positive effectiveness, and history of agricultural activity, product number, cost of water consumption implementation of irrigation systems, and new irrigation cultivation have negative effect on the acceptance and development of pressurized irrigation cultivation. The average marginal effect factors on the development of pressurized irrigation is 0. 345 The ultimate effect of education, water consumption volume and satisfaction with banking and administrative services on pressurized irrigation development is estimated more than other factors.

Keywords

• Irrigation
• Ardebil Province
• Logit model
• The Development of Cultivation