Job creation by changing cropping pattern in atrak watershed, Iran
2011
Mohaddes, S.A., Faculty Member of Agricultural and Natural Resource Centre of Khorassan Razavi Province, Iran
Job creation is one of the most important objectives of a national economic plan in all country special in developing country. Unemployment and loss of employment result in a slowdown in economical, social and cultural development as well as rural-to-urban migration. It is found that most poor people are unemployed. Hence, one of the basic policy measures to alleviate poverty, especially in rural areas, is the creation of employment opportunities and employment security. Agriculture sector of Iran is the most important economy sector that not only it should be production and food security but also expecting to create job for unemployment people. The main objective this study is analyzed employment generation in farms. In this study, the model is used a linear programming model with maximization of employment in objective function. The result showed after running the model increases the employment (15%) but profit farmer loss by 24%. Therefore the employment created well not be sustainable and we cannot expect more job from farm sector.
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