Assessing Resilience of Paddy Farm Water and Soil Resources in Guilan Province

Document Type : Research

Authors

1 M. Sc. Graduate of Rural Development, Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Guilan, Iran.

2 Associate Prof., Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Guilan, Iran.

3 Researcher, International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies of Bari (CIHEAM-Bari), Italy.

4 Assistant prof., Rice Research Institute of Iran (RRII), Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), Iran.

Abstract

Agricultural resilience is focused on absorbing stresses to ease sustained activity of the agricultural system without major changes in its internal structure. Given the fact that water and soil are the key elements in rice cultivation and that Guilan Province is a major rice producer in Iran, it is essential to investigate the factors involved in the resilience of agricultural water and soil in this province. This study was designed to evaluate the resilience of agricultural water and soil resources at the county-level in Guilan Province. For this purpose, local experts in the field of water and soil as well as the relevant literature were solicited to extract and design the decision tree for the combined agricultural water and soil resources system. The required data were collected using the database available at the Guilan Province Agricultural Jihad Organization. Using the Ward clustering method and Euclidean distance, the counties of the province were divided into two clusters with high and low resilience levels. The results of Ward clustering showed that the counties of Astane Ashrafieh, Lahijan, Langaroud, Somesara, and Rasht enjoyed satisfactory statuses with respect to water and soil resilience. Given that coping with long-term stresses and shocks in the farming system requires forecasting and planning and, further, that planning requires a sound knowledge of the current status of water and soil resilience of paddy farms in the study area, this study was implemented to provide a better understanding of water and soil resources resilience in paddy farms in the province by identifying the pertaining indicators.

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