An agricultural mechanization expert said: The results show that the use of agricultural engineering methods, mechanization and integration of land has a positive effect on reducing costs and increasing the income of the users.

According to the reporter of Mehr, mechanization and agricultural tools are one of the important challenges of the agricultural sector. New technology and knowledge bases have had the least impact on the mechanization of agriculture sector. Some experts in this field believe that small lands and empty cultivation patterns have caused the least progress in the technology sector of agricultural tools to be realized. Mohammad Javad Sharifi, an expert in the mechanization of the agricultural sector, told Mehr: "The land consolidation system is very important in terms of economics and agriculture." This strategy can lead to the optimal use of production inputs.

He added: One of the most important challenges facing the development of agriculture in rural areas is the lack of optimal use of production factors, especially land and water, which is directly related to the smallness and dispersion of land belonging to each of the users.

He emphasized: Land integration policies have been used as a logical and feasible solution in different countries to solve this challenge.

This agricultural mechanization expert continued: The purpose of integrating agricultural lands is to increase productivity. The results of the studies show that there is a significant difference in the period before and after the implementation of the project in the number of plots of land for each user, the cultivated area as well as the yield of wheat and barley, the area covered by pressurized irrigation, the cost of using machines for plowing, plotting, Boundary drawing, canalization and furrowing, land preparation cost, planting costs, the amount of use of machinery for fertilizing and sowing, the amount of use of machinery in harvesting, the amount of use of machinery in transporting the product, the amount of use of pesticides, the amount of labor And also the amount of water consumption has been created and this has been able to create important changes in the productivity of production factors.

Sharifi added: The results showed that the application of agricultural engineering methods, mechanization and integration of lands had a positive and significant effect in reducing costs and increasing the income of the users, therefore it is suggested that the strategy in planning and policy making in the agricultural sector should be given serious attention. take

Literature of agricultural development economics

This expert in the field of agricultural mechanization, stating that the strategy of land integration is very important from an economic point of view, said: This strategy can lead to the optimal use of production inputs.

Sharifi mentioned: In the review of agricultural development economics literature, it is clear that there is a negative relationship between farm size and agricultural production efficiency, both theoretically and empirically. Therefore, it is expected that with the implementation of agricultural land consolidation plans, production efficiency will decrease significantly; However, some studies conducted in developing countries show that land consolidation and increasing the size of farms have increased production and improved food security.

He said: due to the inconsistency of various findings with theoretical predictions, an attempt has been made to separate the concept of efficiency from productivity to investigate the effect of the agricultural land integration plan in creating more favorable conditions. The results show that with the implementation of the integrated plan land development, although the technical efficiency of production is significantly reduced; But due to economies of scale, the total productivity of production factors is increasing.

Sharifi stated: It is predicted that the success of this project will end with the increase in the scale of production and the loss of these savings, so it is recommended that agricultural land consolidation plans be implemented along with effective measures to increase the technical efficiency of production in order to increase the amount of production in the long term. , to save as much as possible in the consumption of agricultural inputs.

This agricultural sector expert stated that the small size of agricultural lands, the lack of communication between farms, improper irrigation and drainage, etc., are major problems in the way of producing agricultural products. Agricultural land is made.

Integration effects

Sharifi pointed out several points about the effects of integration and said: it was possible to use new agricultural machines, reduce some current costs in different stages of cultivation of different crops, and also increase the yield of crops and the production efficiency per unit area by improving planting methods. And as a result, it has promotional programs and after the integration of land, the net income of products has increased and the implementation of the plan of integration of agricultural land reduces the cost of producing products.

He added: It will be possible to reduce the amount of water consumption with the possibility of implementing advanced and drip irrigation systems and favorable and optimal investment costs in this method.

He emphasized: With the implementation of the land integration plan, not only in the physical field, there has been a positive change, such as the size of the plots, the removal of additional roads, the leveling of the land, the removal of additional fields, which will result in savings in the time of cultivation of crops, with the implementation This method will increase the scope of exploitation of the possibility of investment on the land along with the efficiency of the products and job opportunities.

research results

Sharifi further stated: The research results show that the variables of income, ownership of agricultural machines, having a non-agricultural job, distance between parts, level of education, participation in extension classes and having awareness of the benefits of the plan have a positive and significant effect on the acceptance of the integrated plan. land development by wheat farmers, and on the other hand, variables such as the level of experience of farmers, the number of plots, the amount of loans received and the number of family members have a negative effect on the probability of accepting this plan.

He added: Also, this process reduces the number of parts between the increase of cultivated area and the efficiency of products.