Analysis of the effects of agricultural tourism on the development of local economy based on saffron farms (Case study: Darbeghazi village of Neishabour County)

Javan, Farhad; Naimabadi, Nazanin; Hojjat Shamami, Sirous

doi:10.22077/jsr.2021.4009.1149

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ PhD in Geography and Rural Planning, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran

² PhD in Geography and Rural Planning, Faculty of Geographical Sciences, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran

³ PhD Student in Geography and Rural Planning, Faculty of Geographical Sciences, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran

https://doi.org/10.22077/jsr.2021.4009.1149

Abstract

Agricultural tourism can be considered as one of the areas of diversification of the rural economy, in this regard, the present study seeks to investigate the effects of agricultural tourism on the development of local economy based on saffron farms in rural areas in the city of Neishabour. The research method is descriptive and analytical and based on library, documentary and field studies. SPSS software and fuzzy electrode model were used for data analysis. In studying the correlation between the effects of agricultural tourism and economic development of rural villages in Daebeghazi, examining the values of Spearman correlation coefficient showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between the independent variable (rural tourism) and economic development of rural villages in Darbeghazi at 0.99 confidence level. Also, beta coefficients in regression analysis showed that among the items of economic development included in the regression equation, the share of agricultural tourism in diversity and stability in job creation is more than other items of economic development. Showed that every eleven items at the level of p = 0.000 (0/99 confidence) had an indirect relationship with agricultural tourism. Finally, in order to study more deeply the spatial analysis of economic development of rural villages in Darbeghazi with emphasis on agricultural tourism in each of the villages, the Electra model was used. The results showed that Khojan village with matrix 5 has the highest rate of economic development, and other villages, respectively, Jafarabad and Rouhabad, Kariz Sabah with matrix 3, Shadmianeh, Karizak, Jilo, Noruzabad with matrix 2, finally the villages of Bahroud and Haghieh with matrix 1, have the highest and lowest rate of economic development with emphasis on agricultural tourism (saffron). It is suggested that the responsible organizations cooperate and participate in the development and construction of saffron tourism farms as high-yield enterprises in line with banking facilities and private sector support.

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