The assessment and identify the impact of drought in rural Area (Feredounshar county)

Abstract

The drought is one of the important natural hazards that have direct and indirect consequences, especially in rural areas Successive droughts caused a loss of Agriculture and empty villages that sent residents have migrated to the cities. The purpose of this study is to analyze and identify the most important consequences of the 1390-1394 drought on the lives of people in the city Fereydunshahr is Choqa village Choqa population included 375 residents of the village who were heads of households using Morgan table and Krejcie 230 samples were selected. Data were collected through a questionnaire that Cronbach alpha was calculated that more than 87percent. Statistics and data using different statistical methods such as factor analysis were analyzed. The results showed that the consequences of drought in the village of Choqa in economic factors (reduction Dramdnashy and horticultural crop production, rising prices of agricultural inputs and costs associated with the production, reduction of non-agricultural income, etc.), which is a 46/25 percent of the variance. As well as environmental and social factors to the values of 89/22 and 63/15 percent of the variance, were the next category. Field studies also show that crop production and crop cultivation declined significantly. The increased production costs, the rural and social status of the village also had a lot of negative changes.

Keywords

• drought impact
• rural area
• factor analysis
• feredounshar county