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Abstract
Realization of development, specially rural and agricultural development,as well as soil and water resources efficiency enhancement and irrigationnetworks management improvement depend on the beneficiaries’participation. Therefore, it is necessary to have macro planning and to beaware of the factors ...
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Realization of development, specially rural and agricultural development,as well as soil and water resources efficiency enhancement and irrigationnetworks management improvement depend on the beneficiaries’participation. Therefore, it is necessary to have macro planning and to beaware of the factors influencing the beneficiaries' active participation inirrigation networks management. Accordingly, this research was executedto investigate how irrigation and drainage networks could be developedbased on the beneficiaries’ participatory strategies. The research area wasin the Bozhan River, Neyshabour County, Iran. Research method wasdescriptive by using survey technique. The research instrument included aquestionnaire. All the network beneficiaries were included in the researchstatistical population. Stratified random sampling was used to collect datafrom 254 beneficiaries. Findings revealed that among all variables of theresearch, ten variables including "referral of other farmers to a beneficiary(water user)", "visiting demonstration farms", "contact with extensionagents", "access to funds and facilities", "educational background","accessible amount of water", "cultivation area", "awareness of advantagesand disadvantages of participation", "conflict background with JihadKeshavarzi Organization" and "job satisfaction" could anticipate a total of60 percent of the variation of the dependent variable of ‘beneficiaries’participation’ in developing secondary and tertiary irrigation and drainagenetworks.