Integration of Agricultural Land and Social Investment Case Study: East Azerbaijan Province, Bostanabad County

Integration of land has many advantages, such as creating an environment suitable for small scale entrepreneurial measures, improving infrastructure and rural services, creating incentives for diversification into rural economies, and so on. However, unfortunately, only small number of farmers are willing to the Integration of land, which has declined over time. In this regard, one of the factors that can be useful in motivating the Integration of land is social capital which includes concepts such as trust, cooperation and interrelationships between a group, in a way that leading the group towards achieving a goal based on common values ​​and standards in a positive society.Therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate the role of social capital in the trend towards the integration of agricultural land in 4 villages in Bostanabad.This research is applied in terms of purpose and is descriptive-analytical in terms of method, and field data and library have been used to collect data and information.The statistical population of this study is Ein al-Din, Haj Agha, Ashdalagh-olia and Kurdkandi villages with 1013 farmers in Bostanabad. Sample size is estimated by using Cochran formula for 197 households which selected by Simple random sampling method.The results of the research show that there is a direct correlation between social capital and the tendency to the integration land and supervisors tend to increase the integration of land with increasing social capital.Among the components of social capital, social trust and participation have the most impact on farmer's tendency to the integration of agricultural land, and also the dimension of so cohesion has the least impact and role in this regard.