Analysis of the Effects of Agricultural Processing Industries in Rural Development, Case Study: Seydan District of Marvdasht Province

The present study has the aim to survey and recognition positive and negative effects of agro-processing industries from viewpoints of two groups of villagers and industry owners in seyedan district of marvdasht township that 377 people have been chosen as the sample by using Cochran formula and Regarding the limitation of processing units (35 units), the information needed in this study has been collected by census and questionnaire made by the researcher. The validity of questionnaire has been verified using opinions of specialists and experts and its reliability has been verified through administration of pre-test and calculation of Cronbach’s alpha coefficient (A>0.78). The comprehensive documentary and field review about the evaluation of processing units’ effects from viewpoints of two groups of industry owners and villagers shows that the most positive effects is to "improve welfare and furniture", " gravitate unprepared agricultural products", " change the agriculture's plan of plantation" and " to supply the food products" also the most negative effects is to " relative development of some villages", " increase the cost of land and domicile" and "to prepare the human force of industrial units from cities". In this manner according to villagers processing the results show that units have been moderately effective in 5 economic, social, agricultural, physical, and environmental dimensions except for economical one; and so have been in all dimensions according to the owners of industries’ point of view