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New agricultural areas in Iran to be provided with irrigation systems

Business Materials 30 January 2020 14:57 (UTC +04:00)
New agricultural areas in Iran to be provided with irrigation systems

BAKU, Azerbaijan, Jan. 30

By Elnur Baghishov - Trend:

More than 120,000 hectares of agricultural land in Iran will be provided with modern irrigation systems by the end of this Iranian year (March 21, 2020), Abbas Zareh, advisor to the Iranian agriculture minister and executor of the project on provision of agricultural lands with modern irrigation systems, said in Kerman province, Trend reports via IRNA.

Zareh noted that 24 percent of agricultural land in Iran is provided with modern irrigation systems.

The advisor added that over the past 41 years (since the Islamic Revolution in Iran), 2.3 million hectares of land in Iran have been provided with modern irrigation systems.

As for Iran’s Kerman province, the ministry official said that 33 percent of agricultural areas in the southern part of the province are provided with modern irrigation systems.

Some 4.5 million tons of agricultural products are manufactured annually in 7 southern districts of Kerman province.

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