Valuation of environment promotion in Bagh-e- Shadi forest, Khatam, Yazd province

In our country, agriculture has been introduced as independence and sustainable development driven. So, special attention should be paid it. Growing population and increasing need for natural resources has caused to reduction soil erosion and sustainable agricultural development have became considered issues in recent decades. Water and soil are two essential inputs in agricultural production. In this Study, two methods including contingent valuation and experimental choice were used to valuation the area. The required data was collected by filling 121 questionnaires by the area citizen who were chosen randomly. Then conditional logit model was estimated. The results indicated that total social values temporary were 0.518 to 1.546 Milliard Tomans and per acre almost are 14000 to 41000 Tomans respectively to reduce soil erosion out-of-field effects. Also high-income, higher education and Marital status desire paying for improvement environment quality, but this is vice versa for old and employed people. According to results, it is very important to perform soil conservation projects for improvement of environmental situation for citizens. Thus it is necessary to extension and culture making for more understanding the soil conservation by farmers and establishes grant-in-aid water and soil quality improvement.