mohammad sadegh alahyari

This study was conducted in order to survey the socio - economic effects of rice and fish cultivation development in the Guilan province. Statistical population in this study were all farmers in Lahijan and Astaneh Ashrafieh who farmed rice and fish mixed culture. It was a running survey which 102 samples were selected. 63 field from Astane Ashrafeye and 39 field from Lahijan formed sample volume. The data were collected through questionnaires. Results showed that the most important effects in the rice-fish cultivation development in the Guilan province were included; increase in the level of food protein because of dietary protein came from fish consumption, increased education and awareness of rural, happiness for development in the lives of rural, rural commuting into cities and other villages, people's participation in rural development programs, reduce fertilizer and pesticide monoculture than in cultivation, increase rice yield, conserves water resources, labor force required to reduce weed farms and quality of rural food.

The present study has done with the purpose of feasibility of establishing water association cooperatives in Guilan province using Analytical Hierarchical Process (AHP). The research method was descriptive and the data were collected by survey technique using purposive sampling method. Considering the background of participatory organization and systems three of them; traditional system, production cooperative and rural cooperative were used as competitor options using library research and paying attention to data analysis technique and selecting the best option for participatory irrigation systems, three main criteria were recognized as social, economic and attitudinal of exploiters. In addition, four sub-criteria were recognized for each of mentioned criteria. After that the hierarchical structure of the research was drawn and according to that three types of questionnaire were complied. In the next step, a list of experts and connoisseurs (connoisseur and harbinger experts) who had educations or occupational experience related to the research topic was made and among them 22 people were selected for filling out the questionnaire. Finally the results analysis was done by Super Decision software. The results showed that due to all of the studied criteria and sub-criteria in the research production cooperative system with the final weight of 0.421 had the highest priority so was considered as the best option for planning of the participatory irrigation system in order to form water association. Next to that traditional system with the final weight of 0.306 had the second priority and rural cooperative with the final weight of 0.273 had the 3rd priority. On the other hand, social sub-criteria had the most effect on traditional system and economic and attitudinal sub-criteria had the most effect on production cooperative.