The Role Analysis of Land Consolidation in Improvement of Agricultural Entrepreneurship Contexts in Khodabande Township (Case Study: Villages of Nourabad Agricultural Services Area)

One of the most important challenges of agricultural sector- as the most important provider of employment and income in rural areas of our country- is the extensive segmentation and distribution of agricultural land plots belonging to each of the beneficiaries. Evaluation of successful countries’ experiences in the organization of agricultural lands shows that nowadays one of the most important solutions to overcome this challenge is the land consolidation; that can be as a stimulus for creating socio-economic changes in rural communities through improvement of agricultural entrepreneurship contexts. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the role of participatory agricultural land consolidation in improvement of entrepreneurship contexts from the viewpoints of shareholder farmers of this study area. For this purpose, from 30 implemented projects, with the cooperation of 610 farmers, 136 cases were selected by using the Cochran sampling. This descriptive analytical research was used questionnaire for data collection. For data analysis, statistical methods such as Wilcoxon test, Crosstabs and Independent Samples t-test were used. The results of this study are presented in two axes: A) land consolidation analysis among farmers with integrated land plots showed that these projects have been successful in creating contexts for formation and development of small scale agricultural entrepreneurship. B) The comparison of the attitudes of two groups of integrated and non-integrated land plots shows a significant difference in entrepreneurship indexes that indicates positive impact of beneficiaries’ scattered land plots consolidation activities in one or several locations in improvement of agricultural entrepreneurship contexts.