Obstacles of livestock breeding businesses of the beneficiaries covered by the Imam Khomeini Relief Committee in Gonbad Kavus county

The present study was conducted to identify the obstacles to the livestock breeding businesses of the beneficiaries covered by the Imam Khomeini Relief Committee in Gonbad Kavus county of Golestan province. The purpose of the research is practical and was done using the survey strategy of the questionnaire. The statistical population of the research was 341 patients covered by the Imam Khomeini Relief Committee in Gonbad-Kavus county, and 184 of them were selected as the research sample using systematic random sampling and Morgan's table. The research evaluation tool was a researcher-made questionnaire, whose content validity was checked by receiving the opinions of experts of the relief committee and academic staff members. To check the reliability of the measurement tool, Cronbach's alpha coefficient was calculated and the value was 0.79. The results of the factor analysis showed that 11 factors with the names of low production and insufficient income, lack of family support and lack of production skills, lack of foresight, lack of stability of laws and regulations, and inability to adapt to market changes, lack of institutional support and lack of access to the inputs, lack of creative spirit and initiative and lack of financial resources management knowledge, low quality of education, lack of insurance support and problems of marketing and selling products, lack of participation in educational programs, lack of effort and perseverance and lack of professional knowledge, accounted for 61.01 percent of the total variance.