Investigating the factors affecting farmers' intention to adopt contract farming

Agriculture is always a risky activity, especially in developing countries. In the absence of capital and agricultural marketing problems, contract farming is a very good way to raise capital, ensure product sales, create fair prices, and ultimately, the balanced development of the agricultural sector. It will lead to a more balanced distribution of the benefits of commercialization, with greater access to opportunities for more of the sector's activists.In contract farming, the price level is determined and technology is transferred. The farmer is forced to follow some extension techniques on his farm. In contract agriculture, the production of the product is transformed from private production to legal production. It is a matter that other countries have gone through for years, and we are at the beginning of the journey, The present study was conducted to investigate the factors affecting farmers' intention of adopting contract farming in Iran