Agricultural Economics

Agricultural Economics

Assessing the Sustainability Trend of Barley and Maize in Iran

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors
Zeinab Badakhshan 1
Hossein Mehrabi Boshrabadi 2
Mohammad Reza Zare Mehrjerdi 3
1 PHD student of Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman
2 Professor Department of Agricultural Economics Shahid Bahonar University Kerman.
3 Associate Professor Department of Agricultural Economics Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman
10.22034/iaes.2023.2009442.2014
Abstract
Lack of attention to environmental, economic, structural and service sustainability destroys agricultural production. Therefore, for stability in the agricultural sector, it is necessary to pay attention to sustainable production criteria.In this paper, the composite indices of environmental, economic, and service-structural productivity sustainability of barley and maize in the provinces of Iran during 2001-2019 were calculated using Integration AHP and TOPSIS approaches, and then the indices of each province were classified separately with ISDM method. In the AHP prioritization results have more preference environmental, economic, and service-structural criteria, respectively. In most provinces, during the time period Average sustainability barley and maize are more sustainable in economic, environmental and service-structural criteria respectively. The results periodic averages and ISDM classification of barley and grain corn criteria in during the time period, indicated that the downward trend in barley and maize sustainability criteria and rising trend for economic criteria in the some provinces due to the improvement of labor productivity. Also in most provinces the sustainability of environmental, economic and service-structural criteria was roughly divided into three periods: 2001-2008, 2009-2014, and 2015-2019. In most of the provinces, the results ISDM classification three sustainability criteria were mostly in the moderate class and in the moderate unsustainable subclass is more than the moderate sustainable subclass. The most effective factor in environmental sustainability is water resources, in economic sustainability is income and profit and in service-structural sustainability is packaging and transportation. It is suggested that environmental sustainability with management in the consumption of water resources and inputs and increasing water productivity; Economic stability by organizing product prices and production costs; And service-structural sustainability should be improved by organizing packaging and transportation, and agricultural subsidies should be applied considering sustainability.
Keywords
Sustainability trend
barley Sustainability
Maize Sustainability
AHP
TOPSIS

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Agricultural Economics
Volume 18, Issue 2 - Serial Number 2
Spring 2024
Pages 173-196