An Investigation of Affecting Factors on the Creation of Cooperative's Production and Distribution of Agricultural Products in Rural Settlements of Gonabad Township

A descriptive-analytical method was used to implement this research. Statistical method applied included path analysis using SPSS package in analyzing 6 effective factors (personal, psychological, educational, environmental, social and economic). In addition it researchers investigated the direct and indirect effects of these factors on the Creation of Cooperative’s production and distribution of agricultural products in the Rural district of Gonabad Township. Findings indicated that all independent variables apart from the personal factors had direct effects on the Creation of Cooperative’s production and distribution of agricultural products. The rest of the independent variables (psychological, educational, environmental, social and economic) had both direct and indirect effects and also a high correlation coefficient with the Creation of agricultural cooperatives. Therefore, the most significant effects of direct and indirect was related to the economic factors(.514%) and the least significant indirect effects found on the Creation of Cooperative of production and distribution of Saffron production were related to the environmental factors(.215%) and personal factors(.235%).