Evaluation of Agricultural Sector Strategies in Five Year Development Plans in Iran

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Evaluation of strategies of agricultural sector facilitates to identify bottlenecks and limitations in the process of national development and helps, on the other hand, to make changes if seems necessary. This article aims to evaluate strategies of agriculture sector during the past two decades using descriptive approach based on Delfi method. Assessment of the documents related to the past four Five Year Development Plans indicated that more than a hundred policies and strategies pertaining to the agricultural development have been passed by the Islamic Consultative Assembly. Out of these policies, those which had important role in the sector were selected based on principle of strategic management for evaluation. The result of evaluation revealed that in spite of implementing four development plans during the past 20 years, the major technical and environmental problems still exist mainly due to lack of using strategic management principles, low level of management at macro level and poor implementation of policies
 

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1. The first Five Year Development Plan which was prepared by the
government after the Islamic Revolution, the country was faced
with issues of war, Parliament did not put it on the agenda but
after the war development plan (1368-72) regulation and adopted
in 1368.
2. It is noteworthy that despite the fact that the selected strategy four
of the five-year development program for the selection and
evaluation criteria were rated But studies show Issues in each of
the programs The legislature has been considering the various
desired, In other words, Eleven of the selected strategy in the four
programs in terms of development and specific phrases that are
repeated.
3. Number of rows 11, means The Eleventh Plan document referred
to the first to fourth rules that are developed, respectively,
documentation based on the number (1) numbered and their
number over 105 is a total of four programs.
4. for information on all parameters evaluated. Please refer to:
Islamic parliament Research Center, infrastructure Office.
Evaluation of agricultural development strategies in the first fiveyear
program develop the country to fourth.
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Evaluation of agricultural development strategies in the first fiveyear
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25. It is worth noting that the adoption of the same challenges
Implementation of development strategies in other sectors, the
general structure of the revised plan and formulating strategies
and administrative systems, In the process of national
development is inevitable