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Investigating farmers' opinions towards changing cultivation to crops with low water requirements: the case of Margoun region | ||
| اقتصاد کشاورزی و روستایی | ||
| Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 06 October 2024 | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.30490/etr.2024.365688.1021 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Seyed Abitaleb Mousavi Moayed; Mehdi Nooripoor* ; Maryam Afereydouni | ||
| Yasouj University | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Today, climate change has negative effects on access to water and, as a result, serious restrictions on food production in many regions of the world. However, such effects are not well understood. Therefore, the current research has studied these questions: is crop change a good solution to water scarcity?, and what are the obstacles to changing crops based on the farmers' viewpoints? To answer these questions, 16 in-depth interviews were conducted with literate farmers with more than 15 years of experience. A purposeful snowball sampling method was considered. The results of the showed that diversity of the causes of crop changes are in the form of 11 factors, 10 categories in the form of two dimensions of economic obstacles (5 categories) and environmental obstacles (5 categories) and 17 consequences in the form of economic consequences (7 categories), ecological-environmental consequences (4 categories) and consequences social (6 categories). Among these items, drought and lack of water resources and low yield of crops as the most important factors, low level of awareness of farmers and high risk as the most important obstacles and replacing the product suitable for the climate of the region and high yield as the most important the consequences of changing the cultivation pattern in Margon city were identified. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Crop change; Water crisis; Margoun region; qualitative research | ||
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