Recognition and analysis coping strategies with drought in Yazd province from agricultural expert views

The purpose of this essay is to survey the coping strategies with drought in rural areas from agricultural expert viewpoints in Yazd province. This survey is functional type and its analytical-explanatory.The population of this study is over 412 persons by using Morgan and Krejcie's table, 185 of them were chosen randomly for sampling, and the tool is researcher's questionnaire. Formal validity of questionnaire was proven by expert panels. A survey with the same population with 30 questionnaires was held, and a finding by the use of Cronbach alpha formula in the SPSS software obtained stability was 0.84. To analyze data we used factor analysis model, and finding represented the most important strategies with drought in the studied area which includes six components (economical and supportive, informative and educational, local institution reinforcement, capacity building, optimum water management and irrigation, reinforcing systematic approach and cooperative management and psychological and social) that variance and cumulative variance by these six component are 92.23. Finally, it is presented based on findings of practical research suggestions

Drought management, agricultural development, rural development, water source management, Iran