Analysis of Agricultural Sustainability and its Effective Factors in Rural Areas

According to the importance and role of agriculture in development of societies, along with environmental concerns and global challenges, including food security and population growth, extensive measures for agricultural sustainability are essential. The emphasis on sustainable agriculture, which is considered as one of the aspects of sustainable development, is to meet the human nutritional needs and improve the natural environment, and economic and social sustainability. In the process of sustainable agriculture, recognition of the existing situation of agricultural sustainability is essential so that effective factors in agricultural sustainability and unsustainability in rural areas can be identified, knowing the existing situation, and thereby effective steps could be taken towards strengthening the effective components of sustainability and also reducing the factors that affect agricultural unsustainability. Accordingly, this research has been assessing the agricultural sustainability in villages of roniz district. In this research, the statistic society includes the farmers residing in the villages of district that according to the latest published statistics, amount to 828 beneficiary farmers who are active in rural areas of this district. In total, 110 beneficiaries were selected as the statistical sample and according to the specialty of the subject, they were selected by snowball sampling method to complete the questionnaire. The results of the study showed that the agricultural sustainability status in the study area is undesirable and below the average level. Finally, the results of regression analysis showed that familiarity with sustainable agriculture and participation in promotion classes had the most and least effect on agricultural sustainability, respectively.