Investigation the Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Investment Growth in the Agricultural Processing Industries

Due to the importance of agricultural processing industries as one the engine of agricultural development in particular, economic and industrial development in general, it is important to identify sources of agricultural processing industries growth from policy planning view. Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is one of the things that, must study its impact on agricultural processing industries properly. To address this problem, the holistic approach (system thinking) used to study the impact of existence of infrastructure on investment growth, in this article. System Dynamics (SD) method used in this article as a tool for the implementation of system thinking approach to use its capabilities in complex systems modeling and for achieving suitable results from simulation model. The population under study is Fars province's agricultural processing industries. Period of study is 1360-1410. Vensim software used for modeling and simulating in this article. The results from the simulation of designed model showed, there is direct and interactive relationship between FDI and amount of investment in the agricultural processing industries. Although the delay affects this relationship.