BAKU, Azerbaijan, Oct.27
By Elnur Baghishov – Trend:
A total of 185,000 hectares of agricultural land will be equipped with modern irrigation systems in the current Iranian year (from March 20, 2020 to March 21, 2021), Executor of the modern irrigation systems project of Ministry Agriculture Jihad of Iran, Abbas Zare said, Trend reports citing the ministry
Zare noted that about 54,000 hectares of land have been equipped with modern irrigation systems since the beginning of current Iranian year.
He added that the operations are underway to equip 131,000 hectares of land with modern irrigation systems.
The official emphasized that 8,140 hectares of land were equipped with modern irrigation systems in Razavi Khorasan Province, 4,620 hectares - in Fars Province and 3,200 hectares - in Kerman Province.
“In total, 2.09 million hectares of land in Iran have been equipped with modern irrigation systems, so far,” he said.
Iran's Ministry of Agriculture Jihad prefers micro-irrigation and drip irrigation method in the modern irrigation system.
Iran plans to harvest 128 million tons of agricultural goods during the current Iranian year (from March 20, 2020 to March 21, 2021). This figure was 123 million tons in the last Iranian year (from March 21, 2019 to March 20, 2020).