Journal of Novel Applied Sciences Available online at www.jnasci.org ©2013 JNAS Journal-2013-2-2S/960-963 ISSN 2322-5149 ©2013 JNAS Determining the Level of Development of with an Emphasis in Agricultural Section (Case study : Lorestan province) Farhad Zand 1 , Kamran Noori 1* and Maryam Zahirnia 2 1- Department of Social Science, Payame Noor University, Iran 2- Geography student, Department of Social Science, Payame Noor University, Iran Corresponding author: Kamran Noori ABSTRACT: The main purpose of development is to achieving sustainable development in order to proper utilization from resources, creating a balanced and harmonious relationship between human society and nature can be considered ideal development. This study has been done for determination of the degree of development of townships of Lorestan province with emphasis on agricultural sector. For determination of the degree of development has been used from 15 indices of major agricultural area and with using numerical taxonomy technique.Based on the results of the analysis of the matrix analysis of determination of the combined distance, all studied areas are homogenous relative to each other. The results show that Poldokhtar and Azna townships have 0.61314and 0.61459 the degree of developments which have the first and second ranks of this classification , respectively . Delfan and Aligoodarz Townships are most underdeveloped townships of province with 0.93508 and 0.99331 degree of development agriculturally respectively. Keywords: sustainable development, numerical taxonomy, agriculture section, province of Lorestan INTRODUCTION Regional disparities are major challenge in the development in many countries. These disparities cause serious threat for achieving to balanced development and also it is difficult to achieving national unity (Shankar & shah, 2003). Inter –regional and intra- regional disparities are clear symbols for third world .due to their economic, social, and political conditions (Hosseinzadehdalir, 2004). In many developing countries, one or two regional have sufficient position in public services and economic prosperity which play main role in national income and product. This led to underdevelopment of other regions which cause increasing is gap and disparities between regions and areas of country (Ziari et al., 2010). In Iran, regional differences and disparities are increasing . These cause serious problems such as immigrate from deprive areas to developed areas (Noorbakhsh, 2002). The report of human development explain these difference and which introduce that one of the most important of human development policies in development program is spatial programming as a long-term program for achieving social justice and regional balancing (PBIRI & Un, 1991). Regional development policies plays main role in which enforcing economic activity and deprived areas and it follow Decreasing regional differences (Mastsumoto, 2008, 480) when deprived area and less developed areas develop with more speed other than the areas, the result is homogenous in regional development unless, following existing method with focusing on economical development in developed area; it follows national and regional divergence and non-equilibrium (Purohit, 2008). Thus, regional programming tries that create coordination of growth between areas which every areas have sufficient development in harmony and alignment with the order and total system of the national space (Eshkevari, 2006) disparities and it various aspect are obvious symbols on underdevelopment. Therefore if some regions have desired social and economical indices, they have known developed regions that there are balanced facilities distribution and services on there, although unsuitable condition of indices and unbalanced facilities distribution are counted characteristics of under developed regions (Mosallanezhad, 2005).