Considering the Distributional Effect of Agricultural Policies in Privinces of Iran

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In Iran, during 1368-90 different supportive policies In order to support agriculture have been adopted by the government. That assessment of them is important for policy implications. This paper according to the strategic importance of wheat in Iranian household consumable goods and the importance of them from viewpoint of policy maker, and in order to assess the distributional effects of government supportive policies to agricultural sector in provinces of Iran during development programs, was done. For this purpose, budget payments, market price support and total support of producers estimate indicators of wheat in the provinces of Iran is used to measure the benefits of implementation of supportive policies that producers of wheat during 1368-90 earned. The results showed that direct effect and total effect of average support of producers of wheat in the first and second development programs in all provinces of Iran was negative, and the portion of market price support in total support of producers of wheat was more than budget payments. the most support of producers of wheat (direct effect) in the third and fourth of development programs was in south of Kerman with amount of 710 and 1000, and in the fifth of development program was in Ilam with amount of 1774 million Rial in per thousand of ton, the most average support of producers of wheat, total effect, in the third to fifth development programs was in Bushehr, Gilan and Ilam with amount of 635,725 and 1860 million Rial in per thousand of ton. Recommend that the amount of support be proportionate with

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