Analysis and Prioritizing of the Influencing the Factors on Dent Corn Production by AHP Method: With Emphasis on Environmental Sustainability

Corn is an important plant in the world. It grows well under medium to hot climate. Development of dent corn plant in Ravansar city in Kermanshah province has such conditions that make Ravansar as a first class of corn producers in Iran. So identifying and prioritizing important factors effective on increasing the production will lead extending its plant domain in other cities of the country and finally develops the agriculture and economic specially for rural people. The main purpose of this survey is recognition and grading of the effective factors for increased the corn production in Rawansar city. In this study the tested population was the society of experts of Jahade Keshavarzi of Rawansar. The information were obtained as questionnaire and the data were analyzed by AHP (multivariate analyzes method) and the Expert Choice software. The results showed that the education-extension factor is the main operative factor in increasing the production of corn, and the factors management, technical and economical factors are in subsequent preferences. Therefore it is suggested that environmental sustainability should also be included in training programs for farmers.