Abstract

The most important targets of land consolidation projects are reducing expense generation and increasing rice farmers' income. This article analyzes land-consolidation effects from the viewpoint of Iranian rice farmers. The research was conducted in the form of a survey study. The data for this research was collected from 176 farmers cultivating traditional rice fields and 188 farmers participating in a farm-development program in Guilan Province. The farmers were sampled using a stratified random sampling method. The reliability of the questionnaire was calculated using a Cronbach alpha coefficient (alpha >0.66) for different sections after conducting a pilot study. The results showed that there are positive and significant relationships between rice farmer’s satisfaction and variants such as rice farmer’s education, rice farmer’s income, eliminate daring problem, eliminate the problems of irrigation and eliminate the problems of access to farm. The mean contrast results showed that there are significant differences between variants such as rice farmers satisfaction, toxicity usage and number of parcels between the rice farmers with traditional and developed lands.

Key words: Land consolidation, agricultural development, paddy fields, Iran.