Investigation on the Relationship owth of Agricultural Sector's Growth with Growth of Industrial and Service Sectors (Commerce, Transportation, Telecommunication) in Iran

Agriculture has always been considerd as one of the important sectors in domestic and international economy. Based on the Central Bank Statistics; agriculture’s share in the Iranian GDP at the constant price of the year 1998 was 13 percent of the GDP in the year 2007. Therefore، studies on the role of agriculture in an economy and its interactions with other economic sectors should be considered with a special attention. This paper aimed at surveying the effects of growth of value-added in agriculture on the value-added of different sectors of industry، services as well as subordinate sectors of transportation، communication and commerce. In this regard، the status of the period between 1967 to 2009 is used. To determine the relationship among the study variables، some econometric techniques such as VAR were used. The results of VAR technique proves that there is a positive relation among the growth of value-added in the agricultural sector with the growth of industrial sector and the growth of sub-sectors of communication، transportation and commerce. Among the mentioned sectors and sub-sectors، the growth of commerce has maximum effect on the agricultural growth. Furthermore، in the short term، the growth variant of trading sector presented the largest share in explaining the variants of the agriculture sector. The growth variant of communication sector is trivial.