D. Hayati; E. Ebrahimi; K. Rezaei Moghaddam
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AbstractInvestigating economic advantages of people participation in irrigation and drainage network development in fourth area of Band-E-Amir region was the objective of this study. That area is 3950 hectares. Case study was the research method. Those farmers who participated and benefited of the project ...
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AbstractInvestigating economic advantages of people participation in irrigation and drainage network development in fourth area of Band-E-Amir region was the objective of this study. That area is 3950 hectares. Case study was the research method. Those farmers who participated and benefited of the project and experts and executors of the project were statistical society of this study. Findings revealed there were several economic advantages in project implementation through beneficiaries' participation. The most important economic advantages were: a) Those farmers who some parts of their lands were allocated to water transferring channels, did not claim for such damaging. Therefore, a large amount cost of payment for land damaging was canceled in the project. b) Project's cost for supplying soil was canceled, because local farmers undertake supply the necessary soil for project from their lands. c) The cost of modification of project execution through delaying was canceled because there was no any delaying according to people participation in project implementation. It is anticipated there will some extra economic advantages in the project implementation in the future, because of the irrigation and drainage network will be compatible with beneficiaries' circumstances.
S. Salehi; K. Rezaei Moghaddam
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AbstractVariable Rate Technology-Irrigation (VRT-Irrigation) is a new approach of IT in agriculture to increase water efficiency in agriculture. With the application of VRT-Irrigation, water is used only in parts of farm that is needed. The purpose of this paper is to compare behavioral intention and ...
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AbstractVariable Rate Technology-Irrigation (VRT-Irrigation) is a new approach of IT in agriculture to increase water efficiency in agriculture. With the application of VRT-Irrigation, water is used only in parts of farm that is needed. The purpose of this paper is to compare behavioral intention and attitude of agricultural experts in Fars and Khuzestan agricultural organizations toward VRT-Irrigation based on revised technology acceptance model (TAM). A survey was conducted using stratified random sampling to collect data from 135 and 114 experts in Fars and Khuzestan provinces, respectively. The results showed research models in this study are more powerful to predict behavioral intention and attitude than prior models. Based on the results, the independent variables have the difference power to predict intention to use, attitude to use and perceived usefulness of VRT-Irrigation in two provinces. There is not difference between two provinces regarding perceived usefulness. Based on the results some recommendations have been provided to use VRT-Irrigation in Iran.
