Sustainable agriculture as one of the economical substitutes of the current agricultural systems has been the center of attention of farmers, environment experts, the public, policy makers all over the world and a great body of research has been increasingly carried out about different aspects of these new systems. Consequently, this study evaluated the effective factors in achieving a sustainable agricultural systems in north of Khuzestan province. The statistical society of this research includes all potato farmers of northern Khuzestan. This research is of practical type and is based on survey research method carried out in year 2012. The validity of this research has been confirmed by a panel of experts and its reliability by distributing 30 copies of questionnaires and analyzing the result by SPSS software by 11.5 Cronbach alpha score which led to 0.76 accepted coefficients. The result showed that there is a positive significant statistical correlation between factors like the level of education, the usage of communication channels, the amount of cooperation with organization of Jihad, the amount of using organic fertilizers and the degree of using integrated pest management (IPM) methods, the amount of using biological fertilizers, and the knowledge of sustainable agriculture. On the other hand, age, gross profit, the amount of using chemical pesticides and fertilizers, experience in agricultural activities and the area under cultivation, has a significant negative statistical correlation on sustainable agriculture. Since it was Further stated that the majority of farmers under investigation, were placed in an average level in terms of sustainable agriculture components, solutions for improvement of knowledge of sustainable agriculture were suggested.

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