By before the Land Reform of 1962 when the structure of the rural community in Iran underwent a drastic change, soil and water resources used to be managed solely by the local users. As a result of the Land Reform Bill, new actors found roles to play in the socioeconomic arena of the rural life, the most significant being the central government and its affiliated agencies. These exogenous changes gradually led to the weakening of the traditional rural systems which ultimately lost their power and rigor.
The government intervention through its various public organizations in 1962 marks the beginning of an era when the government administrative system and its public agencies began to replace the local power of landlords in the village, a process by which the government drowned itself into increasingly huge expenditures with the unpromising entailment of weakened development plans