Analysis of Sustainability Assets of Paddy Systems in Rasht City

Abstract

Access and use of sustainable asset can improve farmer economics status and farmers livelihood affected by capitals quantity and balance between these capitals. The main purpose of this descriptive-conductive research was to analysis sustainability asset in paddy systems of Rasht city. Statistical population of this research contained of all paddy farmers of Rasht township in 1392 (N= 84772), where sample size determines by Krejcie and Morgan sample size (n= 401). The questionnaire included 42 indicators and 13 components for five sustainable livelihoods capitals (physical, human, social, financial and natural). Content and face validity of research tool was obtained by a panel of experts. In order to obtain reliability of questionnaire, Coder- Richardson was used (0.96). The results show that human capital has highest level among five sustainable capitals. Physical capital, social capital, financial capital and natural capital ranked in order. Total component indicators for physical, human, financial, social and natural capitals calculated 1.03, 1.361, 0.866 and 0.8, respectively. This results show that improve in current capitals of rural areas would help to sustainability of paddy cultivation systems