Factors Influencing Wheat Producer's Willingness to Participate in Green Subsidy Program to Adopt and Use of Soil Conservation Practices (Case Study of Khorasan Razavi Province)

This paper surveyed factors influencing farmers willingness to participate in green subsidy program for adopting and continuing on soil conservation practices using a cross sectional data of 175 rain-fed wheat producers of Khorasan Razavi province and logit model. Results showed that household's income, slope of land, required credit for soil conservation at farm level, farmer's awareness of effects of soil conservation and sloped cultivated land to total cultivated lands ratio have positive effect and soil conservation experience has negative effect on probability of farmer's participation in green subsidy program of soil conservation practices. Based on results, awareness about the effects of soil conservation, conducting the program towards small farmers through long-run repayment and gratuitous helps, initial targeting to lands with higher slope, attempt to increase farmer's revenue through supplementary activities so as create incentive for receiving soil conservation subsidy credit and serious attention to required credit for soil conservation at farm level suggested.