AU - Zibaei, Mansour AU - Soltani, Gholam Reza AU - Keykha, Ahmad Ali TI - The Effect of Increasing the Acreage of Corn on Cropping Pattern and Farmers Income in Fars Province PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE TA - JSTNAR JN - JSTNAR VO - 2 VI - 4 IP - 4 4099 - http://jstnar.iut.ac.ir/article-1-153-en.html 4100 - http://jstnar.iut.ac.ir/article-1-153-en.pdf SO - JSTNAR 4 ABĀ  - The production and acreage of corn in Iran and in Fars Province, in particular, are expanding at an increasing rate. The impacts of this event was studied by a risk programming model (MOTAD). The results indicated that the optimal cropping patterns with corn had less variance than the optimal patterns without corn in all income levels. The results also showed that with the introduction of corn into cropping pattern, the use of land and water were increased, but the rate of increase in the use of land was more than the rate of increase in the use of water. By determining risk - aversion coefficient for the sample farmers, their sensitivity to corn price changes were studied. The results indicated that the relationship between corn and wheat is complementary but it is competing with barley, sugarbeet, cotton, cucurbits and legumes. CP - IRAN IN - LG - eng PB - JSTNAR PG - 15 PT - Research YR - 1999