extended abstract 1. introduction the bond between urban and rural areas, the result of their mutual needs in a spatial system, is the basis of urban-rural continuity. one of such bonds is the transfer of agricultural goods from villages to urban market. the structure of production and the flow of agricultural products to urban market could be affected by factors such as access to natural resou...

Introduction Increase in unemployment rate, along with growing resource depletion, is one of the economic-cultural challenges of many developing countries, including Iran. These problems are more deep and complex in rural areas. In other words, our society has been suffering from a lack of production for many years, and consequently, a high unemployment rate in rural areas, which has led to an...

One of the central duties of rural production cooperatives is to promote the adoption and application of sustainable agricultural practices by farmers, which hinges on several factors. Therefore, the study intends to evaluate the factors influencing the application of sustainable agricultural practices by paddy farmers. The research population included from all includes all  paddy farmers as me...

The article summarizes the results of analysis causes fragmentation, dissociation, and polarization economic space rural territories, primarily southern regions Russia, which are leading agricultural industrial country (Rostov region, Krasnodar Krai Stavropol Krai), determines impact infrastructure deficits, conventionality farming for outflow economically active population to areas with a high...

This paper studies the effects of rural infrastructure development on agricultural production technical efficiency, using data from the second agricultural census of China. Employing Data Envelopment Analysis, this paper first estimates agricultural production technical efficiency of each administrative area of China. A Tobit model is then applied to study the effects on agricultural production...