Impact of Climate and Environmental Factors in Improving Agricultural Water Productivity in Iran

Abstract Climate and environmental factors which have been addressed before as dim signs of changes, nowadays act as one of strategic Propulsions in agricultural activities, so recognizing the impact of these factors particularly on agricultural productivity, would be of strategic requirement in order to cope with water shortage challenge in the country. In this manner, current article has been prepared with the aim of identifying the components and indicators of climatic and environmental factors, through field survey and library and archival studies method, and then 4 components and 25 indicators has identified with the help of comments received from experts, and were realized by means of questioners, and their importance degree were attained through a whole 5-point Likert scale. And then with the help of statistical software and structural equation modeling, questions, conclusions and assumptions were studied. According to the obtained results, the "Climate and environmental factors” variable has impacted on the "Improving agricultural water productivity of Iran in 1404 about 81 percent, out Of the four components identified, the Component of "Quality climatic and environmental factors" has been considered as the most effective component with a path coefficient equal to 0/752, and among the 25 specified indicators , the indicator of " water share of the flood used for agricultural lands" by a path coefficient equal to 0/578 has the greatest impact on improving agricultural water productivity.