The effect of Organizational Relationship on the performance of sheep's value chain in Lorestan province

Correct communication between organizations and production centers leads to increased career opportunities production, performance and the loss of wastes resulting from rework. So, this research was paid to identify the organization involved in this process and their duties. The main organizations studied included the Agricultural Jihad, the Agricultural Research Center and credit institutions. The main paradigm of research was mixed. In order to measure the level of communication and the importance of communication between livestock farmers and each of the investigated organizations was considered a score from 1 to 10. Value chain performance was compiled by economic, social, environmental and technical performance indicators by reviewing the literature and examining the views of experts, indexing and ranking weighting. In the qualitative section, 43 experts and ranchers were selected and analyzed in a targeted and snowball way, and in the quantitative section, 382 ranchers were selected and examined by cluster method. The results showed that more than half of farmers (50.9%) had weak and middle connections with organizations involved in the value chain. While the effective communication of these organizations had a positive and significant effect on the performance of sheep value chain. The role and importance of intermediator communication did not have significant impact on value chain performance. On the other hand, according to the results of the Mann-Whitney U test, farmers were related directly with credit institutions, mutual of livestock production improvement, veterinary office and intermediator, they have performed differently than those who were indirectly associated with these organizations.