Studying Contrast Strategies with Drought in Rural Areas from the View Point of Agriculture Experts (Case Study: Esfahan Province)

Drought is defined as lack of rainfall and increase of temperature occurring in any climate. Drought is often described as a creeping phenomenon because it operates gradually and in a partly long time its effects may appear after several years and with more delay rather than other natural disasters. Also its effects are non-structural. Therefore its damages are noticeable in different sections such as agricultural, social, economic and environmental parts, etc. This article aimed to study contrast strategies with drought in rural areas from the view of agriculture experts of Isfahan province.The research is applied and its method is analytic-descriptive. The statistical population of this research included 356 agriculture experts of Fars province where 175 experts were selected to perform the research using Morgan and Krejcie's tableand simple random sampling. The data collecting tool used is the researcher's questionnaire and its validity was confirmed by the panel of experts. Studying guide in a region similar to statistical population was conducted with 30 questionnaires and reliability of the questionnaire was determined 0.81 using completed data and special Cronbach’s alpha formula in SPSS software. Factor analysis model was used to analyze data. The results of this model indicated that the most important guidelines to contrast the drought of studied region included six components (economic diversification and payment of subsidy, empowerment and capacity building, local management for drought, reinforcement of risk management for drought, institutional building and reinforcement of independence of villagers and promotion of knowledge related to management of water). The value of variance and cumulative variance explained by these six factors involved 77.27 and eventually practical suggestions were presented based on the results of the research.