Identifying Obstacles of Agricultural sector development in Islamic countries

Islamic countries have been confronted with various obstacles in the agricultural sector. This obstacles challenge the development of agricultural sector of these countries. though these countries have a large resource capacity and human potential, they have not has an appropriate situation in the agricultural product market. Using a survey method, in this article we show the main obstacle of Agricultural sector development. So we design a questionnaire and distribute it among 284 professionals who study the agriculture sector in the Islamic countries. The result of Friedman test show that the main obstacles are: industrial and technological underdevelopment of the sector, structural weakness in the agricultural business, R&D problem and lack of connection with global market. On the other hand lack of skilled labor has least importance in developing this sector.