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Weather is one of the important effective factors on life of all exists that effects human and him activities. In last decades very scientific and principled methods related to climate and its use has been invited that one of these usages is in agriculture. In present research has been tried for finding new and suitable environment for planting of Saffron in Ardabil province. For this purpose has been used statistics data of annual raining, the rain of growing period, annual temperature, the temperature of growing period, the temperature of least (minority), the temperature of iced, high, steep, aspect of saffron physiology. In the beginning ecologic needs of agricultural plant saffron, have been supplied and so have been studied with standard decision methods for example step by step exploration. With these methods some informations have been produced and their assessment have been accomplished with pay attention to ecologic need by AHP method and at last with co incidence method in GIS environment integrated with each other. After that by composing of all climatic factors and elements has been planed the final plane of capacity of lands for saffron planting in Ardabil province. Last results shows that 41% of Ardabil province have suitable conditions for planting, 20% contain average conditions and 39 % have unsuitable conditions for planting of saffron in Ardabil province.

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