Determining Levels of Agricultural Development in Zanjan Province Iran

Iran is one of the countries which has high regional imbalances in general and agricultural disparities in particular. This disparity is visible within provinces also. Thus the main objective of this paper is to measure the level of agriculture development in Zanjan Province to determine the agricultural development gap within this province. For this purpose, 31 agricultural development indicators for 46 rural districts were used to measure agricultural development level. The obtained results show that regional inequity in respect of water resources is more than other agriculture sub - sectors. Spatial pattern indicates that the developed rural districts are located in northeast; northwest and east of the province, while rural districts located in central and south of the province have low level of development