Survey of Influential Factors on Farmers Empowermentin the Rural Areas of Ahar County

Farmer empowerment plays important role in attaining agriculture development, today. Such empowerment facilitates agricultural development through their provision in cultivation, contribution to efficiency and output production raising, to naturalize farmers with productive marketing problems, natural resources and soil conservation, and in participation to rural leadership activities. The present applied research includes descriptive and analytical survey. We selected 194 inhabitant farmers in Ahar county rural areas by way of random sampling through the medium Cochran’s Test. Also research tool was questionnaire the validity of which was confirmed via different experts’ views Research reliability was calculated by sex throush Cronbakh α (α>0.86) formula. The influential factors to the empowerment of farmers were exploited to be 4 factors. The first factor was social-cultural explaining more than %27.61 from whole variance. The second factor was economical with, %17.75 from whole variance. The third factor was psychological explained %15.13 of whole variance, and the last was namely individual factor explained %12.44 from whole variance. Results showed that the most important affecting factors on farmers, empowerment are individual, economical, social-cultural and psychological the variance and explained accumulated variance of which number is (73.95) among au four factor.