An Investigation of Effectiveness of Agriculture Sector Development Fund of Yazd Province on Shareholder Associations from Perspective of Shareholders

Abstract

According to Iranian government’s politics to support agriculture sector and by considering this that it is required to have capital of private sector along with the capital of public capital in this sector, the government has initiated to establish funds to support agriculture sector development on national, product, province, town and rural and tribal women levels. This survey-descriptive research aims to investigate the effectiveness of the Agriculture Sector Development Fund of Yazd Province on shareholder associations in perspective of shareholders. Methodology: Statistical population of this study includes shareholders of Agriculture Sector Development Fund of Yazd Province that were 226 persons. 110 samples were selected by the simple random method using Cochran’s formula. To analyze data, descriptive and analytical statistics were utilized. Results: After analyzing by SPSS software, findings indicated that there is a positive and meaningful relationship between variables of effectiveness scope of covered companies including improvement of position, employment, income, development of activities of shareholders, development of agriculture activities with the effectiveness of this fund. Conclusion: Making payment facilities purposeful in advantageous fields of the province such as greenhouse and also models of serving patterns and formation of production chains are some approaches.