Sustainability of Guilan Rice Fields and its Effective Factors (Case: Rasht City)

The present research is a descriptive-correlational study and was done with the aim of assessing the stability of the rice fields in Guilan province and investigating the factors affecting the use of sustainable agricultural methods. The Statistical population of research consisted of rice farmers in Rasht city. The data gathering tool was a researcher made questionnaire whose validity and reliability were confirmed by Cronbach's alpha coefficient and KMO statistics. Using factor analysis of the main variables of the research, it was indexed. The results showed that a sustained average of rice fields in the study area is to 3.592. This means that the sustainability of the rice fields in the study area is less than average. Independent variables of research were placed in three groups of characteristics, economic and agricultural. The result of the correlation test proves that between variables of education level (0.505), income from rice cultivation (0.283), the type of operating system (0.447), saving inputs (0.378), indigenous knowledge of rice farmers (r =0.121), the amount of technical knowledge of rice farmers (0.289) and knowledge of sustainable agriculture (0.944) with sustainable agriculture, there is a positive and significant relationship but between variables such as age, gender, farming experience, household size, extent of rice fields, non-agricultural employment, Participate in education and promotion classes and access to credit facilities was not found a significant relationship with sustainable agriculture.