Three water, agriculture projects inaugurated

reporter 1222 — Sat, 23 May 2020 03:55:07 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Three water and agriculture projects valued at about $84.7 million were inaugurated by President Hassan Rouhani and Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian in the southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan via video-conference on Thursday.

Agriculture Minister Kazem Khavazi was present in the inaugural ceremony of the projects in Sistan and Baluchestan, IRNA reported.

Rouhani said the country’s success in tackling the coronavirus epidemic and dealing with the “virus of US sanctions” shows that Americans will never be able to bring the Iranian nation to its knees and will have to remain in despair over their wrong approaches.

The Iranian nation may rest assured that the Islamic Republic will not allow a grin on the face of the arrogant rulers at the White House, Rouhani said.

“We’ll do something that they [US leaders] would remain in grief and sorrow in their wrong political approach forever,” the president added.

He emphasized that the “severe and unprecedented sanctions and pressures” have failed to impede the Iranian nation’s progress.

“The US cannot bring our nation to its knees, the evidence of which is these projects that we are implementing in the current Iranian year (starting March 20) after two years and a couple of months of tough sanctions,” he added.

Although the coronavirus and the “American virus” of sanctions have created problems for Iran, none of them can halt the country’s progress and production, President Rouhani underlined, noting, “We will keep production and will do our utmost to achieve the goal that the Supreme Leader has set for a surge in production this year.”

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Over 2,600 agricultural projects to be inaugurated this week

reporter 1222 — Wed, 28 Aug 2019 13:11:26 +0000

Inaugurating these projects is set to create more than 94,000 job opportunities across the country, IRIB reported.

As reported, Khorasan Razavi with 280 projects, Isfahan with 260 projects and West Azarbaijan with 220 projects were the top three provinces in terms of the number of allocated projects.

The projects covered a variety of areas including water and soil subdivisions, livestock and poultry as well as gardening and crop production projects.

According to the ministry’s report, nearly 19,000 projects have been inaugurated in various areas of the country’s agricultural sector since August 2017 up to date.

Last week, the Agriculture Ministry published a report on development of the country’s agricultural sectors in the past six years.

Based on the released data, Iran’s total agriculture production in various sectors including horticulture, livestock, poultry and aquaculture reached 122 million tons in the past Iranian calendar year (ended on March 20, 2019), a 3.3 percent rise compared to the figure for March 2013.

As reported by IRNA, the country’s total agricultural production stood at 97 million tons in the Iranian calendar year of 1392 (started in March 2013).

According to Deputy Agriculture Minister Abbas Keshavarz, the country’s self-sufficiency rate in wheat production has increased from 65 percent in the Iranian calendar year of 1392 (March 2013-March 2014) to 105 percent in the past year.

In the past forty years, since the Islamic Revolution, Iran has witnessed a remarkable improvement in various sectors and the agriculture industry has been one of the areas in which the country has undergone huge development.

Revolutionizing the agriculture industry through implementing billions of dollars’ worth of development, research and educational projects across the country has been one of the main reasons for the significant improvements in this sector in recent years.

The recent heavy rainfalls across the country have also created a good condition for the country’s agricultural sectors to witness a rise in production.

Earlier in June, Iranian Agriculture Minister Mahmoud Hojjati said the country is expected to experience a significant increase in agricultural production due to sufficient rainfalls this year (March 2019-March 2020).

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Three water, agriculture projects inaugurated

Over 2,600 agricultural projects to be inaugurated this week