Investigating the Challenges of Palm Trees in Sustainable Date Production in Dashtestan County

This research was goals investigating the Challenges of Palm Trees in Sustainable Date Production. The population was in research consist of Palm Trees in Dashtestan County. Therefore, for selecting the samples, targeted snowball sampling (chain referencing) was used. Sampling continued until data saturation, in the end, the number of participants in the study reached 17. The research method was of qualitative type based on the data theory method of the foundation. The research data were collected using a deep interview and group discussion and analyzed with three open and axial coding methods. After an in-depth review of the issue, 29 major barriers to sustainable production management in Dashtestan were identified. Generally among the factors identified due to the abundance of water and drought factors, the presence of speculators and lack of palm co-operation, lack of guaranteed date palm purchase, lack of cold storage and high productivity are the most important palm problems in palm production management. Production was stable. Finally, codes of a similar nature fall into the categories of barriers to marketing, economic and supportive, educational, and skillful, ecological, policy and industrialization.