Investigating the Effective Factors on the Acceptance of New Irrigation Technologies Among Farmers in Sistan Region

The utilization of new irrigation technologies is a solution that serves farmers to manage production risk (yield) through the optimal storage and allocation of resources. This study was conducted to predict the factors affecting the adoption of new irrigation technologies among farmers in the Sistan region using the logit model. Sampling in this study was a random cluster method in which 100 farmers were selected from the villages in which the pressurized irrigation project was implemented. The required data were collected using a questionnaire from farmers in the crop year 2019-2020 and were analyzed by SPSS24 software using the logit model. The results of logit regression showed that age, education, ownership, the area under cultivation, and income explain between 71 to 94.6% of the changes in the adoption and non- adoption of pressurized irrigation and social and economic factors have been able to change between 69% to 92% of changes in technology acceptance. only economic factors such as low-interest rates on bank facilities, sufficient amount of bank facilities, farmer investment capacity, etc. had a significant effect (P ≤ 0.05) on the adoption of pressurized irrigation technology by farmers. Therefore, appropriate mechanisms should be provided to eliminate these restrictions according to the conditions of farmers and use scientific and practical training to encourage farmers to accept this technology, on the other hand, due to the hot and dry climate of the region should be suitable crops and gardens with this method, pressurized and environmentally friendly irrigation methods that are more economically efficient and effective, should be introduced to farmers.