Environment, Development and Sustainability

, Volume 15, Issue 4, pp 1129–1142 | Cite as

Evaluation of education and water resource types on some wheat land features, using Fars Comprehensive Agricultural Database (case study; Pasargad, Iran)

  • Mehrzad Kherad
  • Hossein Ahani
  • Mohammad Reza Kousari
  • Arman Beyraghdar Kashkooli
  • Mohammad Amin Karampour
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Abstract

Fars Comprehensive Agricultural Database was created to remove bottlenecks and constrains of province for decision makers in a way that leads to sustainable agriculture. Regarding Fars agricultural comprehensive information database, and the importance of wheat as the strategic commodity, this study was conducted in Ali-Abad-e-Kamin (Pasargad, Iran) to assess two most important managerial factors affecting other agricultural factors. Therefore, in this study, besides evaluating the effect of water resource on wheat yield and other traits, education impacts were analyzed and evaluated as well. Data were collected regarding cadastre land use information derived from satellite imagery combined with GIS potencies, and also a comprehensive questionnaire was completed to collect local field information. Results revealed that educational level has significant effect on crop yield, fields’ area and seed consumption rate and also effect of water resource showed significant difference for crop yield, fields’ area. Finally, interactive effect of water resource and educational level showed significant difference just for wheat yield. Also, as a result, higher education positively results in improved wheat yield, lands’ area and seed consumption rate. On the other hand, river as a type of sustainable water resource with karstic geological formations positively affected wheat yield, lands’ area and farms distance from village. Overall, transferring knowledge from relevant organization resulting in higher productivity seems to be necessary.

Keywords

Educational level Fars province Wheat Comprehensive database Water resource 
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Acknowledgments

The authors gratefully appreciate the Cadastre group (Management Center for Strategic Projects) in Fars Organization of Agricultural Jahad for their support and providing research facilities.

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Mehrzad Kherad
    • 1
  • Hossein Ahani
    • 1
  • Mohammad Reza Kousari
    • 1
  • Arman Beyraghdar Kashkooli
    • 1
  • Mohammad Amin Karampour
    • 1
  1. 1.Management Center for Strategic ProjectsFars Organization Center of Jahad AgricultureShirazIran

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