examine individual and professional farmers capabilities concerning the extent of using the activities which would control the drought in tafresh county

the aim of this research is to examine individual and professional farmers capabilities concerning the extent of using the activities which would control the drought in tafresh county. this research is of non- experimental type in terms of goal, function and possibility of controlling variables and from methodological point of view it is of the descriptive and correlational type and from data processing point of view this research is correlation type. statistics society in the current research consists of the all farmers, who are around 9061 in number, in tafresh county. according to cochran’s formula 300 farmers were estimated to be the research was the questionaires which were completed through personal interviews. the measure of durability used in the research together with general average amount were cronbach alpha 0.848 and the legitimacy of the questionaires were approved by guiding professors and advisors islamic azad university garmsar branch and tehran university. the result of connectivity test proved that there were significant among the rate of applying operations in order to control drought with skill variables, levels of technical knowledge of farmers concerning the control of drought and age and experience of agricultural activities. and at the end the result of regression multitude analysis showed that first the record of agricultural activities, second age of farmers and third the level of professional farmers and third the level of professional farmers capabilities were three major variables that had the greatest impact on the rate of applying operation so as to control drought