Assessment the performance of social, cultural, mobilization and Renovation and integration of paddy fields Case Study:Gharetoghan Village of Neka city

The study of sustainable agriculture and its sub-systems for the purpose of obtaining more knowledge and information about the situation of such systems and development of appropriate mechanisms, strategies and programs for achieving sustainable development of agriculture has a great importance.The main aim of this study is to examine the social-cultural effects of mobilization and renovation projects and integration of paddy lands and evaluation of its success rate in term of social and cultural factor from the view point of agricultures and experts.The research's statistical community includes two study groups. The first are villages which mobilization and renovation and also paddy lands integration have been made in their lands, which are 9 villages in Gharetoghan rural district, that is in the central part of Neka town ship in Mazandaran province, which are considered as the research objective villages in evaluation of the project. Another group are the experts who designed or performed the project or were involved in a way in the project execution. The independent variable of research is the indices of social and cultural dimension of the project and the dependant variable is the project success from social and cultural viewpoint. The research method is descriptive and analytical method. The data was collected through field study and questionnaires distributed among 260 farmers of the studied area and the 68 experts of the project.The findings show that from the social-cultural aspect, experts believe that the project implementation was successful, but farmers believe that it was not successful. Moreover, the correlation coefficient of social- cultural aspect is -0.072; therefore, there is no correlation between the farmers and experts view about the success of social- cultural aspect.