Feasibility Study of Low- input Pistachio Production: Case Study of Dasht-e-Rabat Region- Shahr-e-Babak County

During the recent decades, a lot of attention has been paid to approaches such as organic farming as a way to deal with issues and maintain environmental equilibrium in terms of sustainability. However, on the other hand, given the nature of organic farming with emphasis on no use of chemicals in the production process, it is a bit difficult to reach, so one of the recent approaches that has been considered to protect the environment, especially in the field of agriculture, is the production of healthier goods with low usages of external inputs. Thus, the aim of this study was to investigate the feasibility of producing low-input pistachio in Dasht-e-Rabat region of Shahr-e-Babak County. Research population included pistachio growers of the supposed region (N=2500) whom about 189 of them were selected as the research sample using Bartlet Table and quotas random sampling technique. Research tool was a questionnaire whose validity was verified using face validity procedure. Moreover, its reliability was also verified calculating Cronbach's Alpha reliability coefficient in a pilot study (from 0.70 to 0.89). Descriptive and also one-sample t-test results showed that out of different necessary factors for low-input pistachio production, economic, legal and social factors are in an unfavorable situation, while technical and attitude factors have favorite conditions. Also, the results of logistic regression showed that the factors such as attitude, technical factors and acquaintance of necessary time to take orchards organic are the main variables affecting the production of organic/ lowinput products.