Constraints to the Application of Integrated Crop Management in Sustainable Agriculture

    The present study examines the constraints to the application of integrated crop management in sustainable agriculture from the view of experts in Rey county. It is an applied and descriptive-correlative study. The statistical population consists of 30 experts from Jihad for Agricultural Bureau in Rey county during 2011. The research tool is a questionnaire and its validity is assessed by academic experts and its reliability examined by Cronbach's Alpha coefficient. The examination of correlation coefficients indicates that training, financial, institutional-organizational, and cognitive limitations have significant and positive relationships with the application of integrated crop management while it has a negative relationship with age of respondents. In addition, the results of multiple regression show that the aforementioned variables can explain 60% of changes in the application of integrated crop management.