study of factors affecting agricultural land fragmentation

in order to analyse the effective factors contributing to land fragmentation, required data ‎were collected by questionnaire from 151 farmers who were selected through a stratified random ‎sampling design from 12 villages of ramjerd yek subdistrict of marvdasht country. factor analysis ‎was used to identity explanatory factors of land fragmentation. the variables of natural-farming, ‎socio-cultural, economic and physical factors explained 73.5 percent of variation of the agricultural ‎land fragmentation. regression analysis showed the household average annual income, per capita ‎arable land, size of land rented by household, labour force of household, family size, number of crop ‎planted by household and size of land rented out explained 75.5% of the variation.‎