Analysis of Barriers to the Development of Conservation Agriculture in East Azarbaijan Province

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1 School of Biosystem Engineering, Tabriz University, Tabriz, Iran

2 Master Student of Agricultural Mechanization Engineering Department of Biosystems Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tabriz

3 3. Department of Biosystems, Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran.

Abstract

One of the agricultural approaches in the world to deal with various environmental challenges and erosion is the development of conservation agriculture with the aim of achieving sustainable production and management of water and soil resources. The main approach of conservation agriculture is to emphasize not to use insecticides, chemical fertilizers, and herbicides, to use fewer mechanical methods and to use only natural methods. The current research is part of qualitative research in terms of application. Three steps were determined to conduct this research. In the first step, the barriers to the development of conservation agriculture are identified. This work was done by analyzing the qualitative content of sources and conducting interviews with experts and experts from 22 semi-structured interviews in the province. In the second step, the inhibitors were ranked and grouped. In the third step of patterns, interpretive structural patterning method was used to determine the level of the main inhibitors and the internal relationships between the inhibitors. A comprehensive model of barriers was designed and after the formation of a technical committee consisting of 6 people with experts in the barriers analysis department, as a result of the content analysis of the interviews in the coding stage, 27 barriers were divided into seven barrier groups (financial, credit, service). supportive, educational and knowledge, attitudinal, policy making and planning, structural and institutional, technical and management were divided, structural and institutional factors and policy making and planning are the bases of the model of inhibitors and structural and institutional factors, policy making and Planning and monitoring, evaluation and use of services and incentive packages for farmers are the foundations of the Pishran model.

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Agricultural Mechanization
Volume 9, Issue 1
March 2024
Pages 67-77

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  • Receive Date: 25 August 2023
  • Revise Date: 04 August 2024
  • Accept Date: 08 September 2024

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