Ranking of agricultural development in Fars province with combine of ANN and GIS

Problems in the agricultural sector are different depending on each region. Special attention needs to be paid to regional and local planning, so that the priorities of each region can be precisely determined. In this study, using Agricultural Statistics for 2014, the list of 98 indicators of agricultural development in five major groups (agricultural utilization, yield, agricultural mechanization, livestock and infrastructure services and other agricultural services) was extracted and after weighting the indexes were evaluated using artificial neural network method of agricultural development in the cities. The results of the assessment of the agricultural development level of the counties showed that the city of Shiraz (1.518) and Marvdasht (1.473) ranked first and second and Zarrin Dasht (0.590) and Lamerd (0.495) rank 28 and 29. In the case of cluster 1 indicators of infrastructure services and other agricultural services with a weight of 0.2727 and in cluster 2, the index of performance with the weight of 0.2016 is the most important. According to the results, it is suggested that the government, in line with its core justice policies and the elimination of deprivation in less developed regions, is more concerned with the discovery of the inherent and hidden talents of each region to expand its specialization in production of products Different types of agriculture, including crops, livestock, etc. Also, when allocating credit and distribution of facilities, they should pay more attention to these areas in order to find all the regions in a homogeneous and balanced situation in the agricultural sector.