extent of the use of drought management practices by farmers in tafresh county

The extent of utilization of drought management practicesby the farmers of tafresh county was studied in a descriptive-correlational research. statistical population consisted ofall farmers in tafresh county which summed up to around9061 people out of which 300 farmers were taken as the samplein accordance with cochran’s formula. the main tool of thestudy was a questionnaire. the validity of the questionnairewas confirmed by a panel of expert consisting of some facultymembers of islamic azad university, garmsar branch and theuniversity of tehran, and the reliability of the questionnairewas estimated as to be 0.848 using cronbach alpha. the resultsof correlation test indicated a direct, significant relationship betweenthe extent of utilization of drought management practicesand the variables of agricultural activities experience and thelevel of farmers’ social capabilities at 0.01 level. moreover,there was a negative significant relationship among age, farmingexperience and the application of drought management practicesat 0.01 level. finally, the results of multiple regression analysisshowed that three variables, i.e. extent of farmers’ social capabilities,experience of agricultural activities and the age of thefarmers, had the greatest influence on the extent of utilizationof drought management practices.