Comparison of the Performance of Agriculture Commission in the 19th and 21st Parliamentary Terms of the National Assembly

The aim of this paper is to compare the performance of the Agriculture Committee of the National Assembly in the 19th and 21st terms. The aforementioned terms have been selected because the land reform, as the most important scheme of Shah's White Revolution, took place during the interval between these two terms. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to compare the performance of the Agriculture Commissions in the pre- and post- land reform periods. The three criteria selected to achieve the objective of this study are: Question of commission members and other cabinet members from the Ministry of Agriculture about the agricultural sector; pre- and post-commission speeches of members focusing on the problems of the agricultural sector; and comments by members of the commission on plans and bills relevant to the agricultural sector. The research method is historical, and the data collection method is documentary and based on the detailed debates of the 19th and 21st terms of the National Assembly. The results of the study showed that, from the point of view of questions posed to the Ministry of Agriculture, the Agriculture Commission of the 19th term was more prominently active with 25 questions versus no questions posed by the 21st Commission. On the other extreme, from the perspective of commenting on plans and bills relevant to the agricultural sector, the Agriculture Committee of the 21st term can be assessed as being more successful. In view of addressing the problems of agricultural sector in the delivered speeches, the performance of both commissions can be considered equal.