Identify and Analysis of Barriers on Entrepreneurship Development of Agricultural Waste Management in Rural Areas (Case Study: Rice Crop Waste in Guilan Province)

Rice waste is one of the agricultural wastes in Guilan province and a source of livestock feed. Most of it is imported from abroad. Therefore, abundant rice waste and livestock need for fodder provide a good opportunity for entrepreneurship. This research has a quantitative approach with an applied orientation. The purpose of this study is to identify barriers to entrepreneurship development from rice straw as animal feed. The statistical population of the research is 180000 rice farmers, out of which 400 farmers from 40 villages and 10 farmers in each village were randomly selected as a sample. Data collection was performed using a questionnaire and data analysis was performed using factor analysis model. The results show that the factor of facilities and natural conditions include variables of humidity, rainfall, lack of storage and machinery with a eigenvalues of 2.5 and a percentage of the variance of 30.9. Socio-cultural factors including variables of knowledge, education, and poor management with a eigenvalues of 1.93 and variance percentage of 11.4, financial factors including the cost and capital shortage variables with eigenvalues of 1.36 and variance percentage of 8.7 and ownership rate including variables of a number of livestock and land with a eigenvalues of 1.26 and percentage of the variance of 5.5 6, are the most important disincentive factors of the straw entrepreneurship development, is known as animal feed. We conclude that by removing this barrier, entrepreneurship can be developed and the problem of providing livestock feed in the province will be solved to some extent.