An analysis of the role of people's participation lity of rural economy: A case study: Eijroud Dehestan, Eijroud County, Zanjan province

Nowadays, participation plays an important role as an effective approach in achieving a permanent livelihood and establishing a sustainable economic system in rural areas. In fact, the approach of participation creates an appropriate field for the continuity of rural economic systems by providing a proper background of cooperation and establishing an informational flow in different parts of production service and commerce. Rural economy is facing numerous problems including low level of production pace, severe fluctuation of production, confusion in markets, and lack of investment and severe crop diseases. Consequently, considering the participation approach in order to pass over the current unstable situation seems inevitable. The present study has attempted to investigate the people’s participation role in the dynamism of rural economy between 14 rural settlements of Eijroud Bala Rural District, in Eijroud Township, on the basis of a comprehensive approach, in a descriptive-analytical, regression framework. The data were collected in the form of a questionnaire containing 147 samples and the analysis was done by applying the SPSS software and rating the economic stability of rural areas by using TOPSIS multi-criteria decision-making technique. Based on the t-student test, the extent of people’s participation and rural economic stability is meaningfully less than the expected level. The results of a multi-variable regression indicated that some indices such as the people and the government’s participation in investment in soil and water resources, offering loans for shared investment, contributing in and informing the control of agricultural products pests and the new types of high-yield crops would have the greatest influence on the stability of rural economy.