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“Farm Corporations” on the DEZ – Iran's Approach to Rural Development

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 July 2020

William L. Park
William L. Park*
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics and Marketing, Rutgers University
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Extract

Shamsabad is a small rural village in the Khusestan region of southwestern Iran and within sight of ancient Persepolis, the magnificent city of the Persian Empire. In 1969, its 80 farm families and 60 laborer families were living at near subsistence levels in a mud-walled village about the size of 20 city blocks. They were dependent upon a non-technical and comparatively primitive agriculture which had existed in the region for many generations.

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International Trade and Development
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Journal of the Northeastern Agricultural Economics Council , Volume 1 , October 1972 , pp. 32 - 46
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Copyright © Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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Footnotes

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Chairman, Dept. of Agricultural Economics and Marketing and former Sr. Agricultural Economist for Development and Resources Corporation. During 1970, the author served as a member of a team of agricultural and engineering specialists who assembled in Andimishk and Tehran, Iran to evaluate the advisability of utilizing the farm corporation concept in the development of the DEZ Irrigation project. This paper is largely drawn from the team report. Although the economic analysis in the D & R report was the responsibility of the author, he is indebted to other team members including: Hon. William Warne, Team Leader; Dr. Fenton Sands, Agronomist; Mr. Raymond Anderson, Livestock Specialist: Mr. John Freivalds, Agricultural Economist, Mr. Jack Ericksen, Civil Engineer; Dr. John Vaughn, Chief Agricultural Advisor-Iran; Mr. Lyle Wilcox, Farm Management Specialist-Iran; Dr. Mehdi Yazdi, Director of the DEZ Irrigation Project; Mr. Hedayat Tabib, Director of Safiabad Trial Farm; and Mr. Paul Micou, D & R - Iran. The study would not have been possible without active support by the Iranian government and D & R management (David E. Lilienthal, President).

References

Selected Bibliography

Feasibility Studies

Development and Resources Corporation, The Unified Development of the Natural Resources of the Khuzestan Region, New York, March 1959.Google Scholar
Khuzestan Water and Power Authority, Dez Pilot Irrigation Project, Status Report, p. 226, Ahwaz, February 1962.Google Scholar
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Development and Resources Corporation Agribusiness Opportunities, Prospectus Series, Number 1, Alfalfa Production and Dehydration, June 1969.Google Scholar
Development and Resources Corporation Agribusiness Opportunities, Pollard, Leonard H., Vegetable Crops in the Dez Irrigation Project, Sacramento, November 1968.Google Scholar
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