The Situation of Sustainable Agricultural Development in Iran Development Plans Case: Five-year plans After the Revolution

Nowadays, sustainable agricultural development is one of the basic needs. For achieving to this aim, sufficient attention should be paid to this concept on the country five-year plans as an upstream document and development navigation. This paper has evaluated Five-year plans After the Islamic Revolution from the viewpoints of its attention and emphasis on sustainable agricultural development dimensions and indices. Required data are collected through document study. Collected data has been analyzes based on content analysis through VIKOR method and Atlas.ti software. The result showed that although, there has been some attention to sustainable agricultural development in all of the Five-year plans after the Islamic Revolution, but the more emphasis has been paid to sustainable agricultural development concept on the fifth development plan. Although the attention has been gradually paid to concept of sustainable development in all of the planning process, but, there has not been equal emphasis on all dimensions of sustainable agricultural development.