The Factors Affecting Farmer's Participation in the Maintenance of Lined Irrigation Canals (Third Degree)

Irrigation canals leading to increased resistance against scour the walls and water losses. They can be reduced influence that water in the soil. So the irrigation canals are essential for increased efficiency of water. Primer irrigation canals need for operating and maintaining that is costly and should be paid by government and public sector. Therefore, the participation of farmers in the operating and maintaining is essential. This study surveys has been conducted fieldwork in the third grade irrigation canals city of Rasht. The specific objective of the study is to investigate the factors affecting farmer's social-economic and professional farmers in the participation of, operating and maintaining of irrigation canals. The questionnaire was the main toll for collecting data. The validity of the questionnaire was approved by 15 subject specialists and reliability assessed with Cronbach's alpha 0.75 Obtained. The population of this research was 203 paddy farmers. By Gorgesi-Morgan formula 133 samples were selected with random sampling. The results showed the individual characteristics age, education, land holding, total income, social and economic condition of paddy farmers with participation of operating and maintaining of irrigation canals have significant positive relationship.