Evaluating the Effect of Support Policy on General Services of the Iranian Government on Productivity of Agricultural Sector

Support program of general services agriculture sector is one of the non-price supports that include infrastructures, R&D, education center, inspection services center, marketing and promotion and public stockholding. The goal of present study is to survey the effect of support of general services on productivity of agriculture sector during the "Five-year Development Plans" in Iran. Using Almon distributed lag model, relation between variable were studied. The result showed that the support have had positive effect on total productivity of production factors, by the effect of the increasing 1% in support amount of general services in agriculture sector in long-term, the level of total productivity of production factors raise 0.0713%. Therefore, for increasing production and power of domestic production and easing to join to WTO in level of the world that had non-price policies, we suggest that the level of the general services in agriculture sector should be increasing.