Analysis of reasons for the decrease the area cotton cultivation Case: Central District of Gonbad-e Kavos County

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural Extension and Education, Gorgan University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Gorgan, Iran

2 Ph.D student of Agricultural Economics, Payame Noor University, Tehran center

Abstract

This study aimed to analysis of reasons for the decrease the area cotton cultivation in Agricultural lands of Central District of Gonbad-e Kavos County in Golestan province. The research is descriptive and survey. The target populations in the study consisted all of 15234 farmers residing in two rural districts (Fajr and Soltanali) in central district of Gonbad-e Kavos County. Using random sampling 375 of them were selected as research sample. Data gathered through a questionnaire and its face validity was confirmed by experts of extension and agronomy. The reliability analysis was conducted with Cronbach’s alpha method and coefficient was 0.83. Data were analyzed using SPSSwin19 software. The results showed according to respondents, the most important causes of the decline in cotton cultivation were little or no skilled worker for traditional cotton picking, labor shortage and high wages of skilled workers. Factor analysis showed constituent factors of unwilling farmers to plant cotton respectively placed in nine factors such as social- agricultural, labour, technical- agricultural, production and market infrastructure, the profitability of production, agricultural- supportive, mechanization, institute- technical and inputs quality explain 61.47% of the total variance of unwilling to plant cotton. This study recommended paying attention to the mechanization of cotton planting, protecting and harvesting and develop its machine harvest aimed at reducing costs, especially labor costs with emphasis on applied research in the field of making proper and inexpensive machinery for planting, growing and harvesting.

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Iranian Journal of Cotton Researches
Volume 6, Issue 1 - Serial Number 11
September 2018
Pages 43-64

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