Jafar Vahdat, the acting deputy head of the province’s Agriculture Department, said that these units are active in 60 hectares of land.

The official said that besides cultivating agricultural products, some medical herbs are also cultivated in these greenhouses.

Earlier this month, an official with Agriculture Ministry announced that the ministry plans to construct 3,052 hectares of new greenhouses in 10 different provinces across the country in the current Iranian calendar year (started on March 21).

Darioush Salempour, the director of the Agriculture Ministry’s Greenhouse Development Program, said these greenhouses will be built in provinces that are suitable in terms of climate, infrastructure, proximity to target markets, and access to manpower such as Sistan-Baluchestan, Hormozgan, Kerman, Bushehr, Fars, Isfahan, Khorasan Razavi, Tehran, East Azerbaijan, and Ardebil.

According to Salempour, over 30 trillion rials of facilities (about $714 million) was paid for the construction of greenhouses across the country in the previous Iranian calendar year.

He stated that last year 45 percent of the greenhouses constructed in the country were funded by private sector investors, adding that this year the National Development Fund (NDF) and the country’s banking system will provide low-interest facilities to applicants in low-income regions for the construction of greenhouses.

The official also mentioned the ministry’s plans for the modernization and renovation of the country’s traditional and old greenhouses, saying: “Our plan in the 10-year horizon is to improve and renovate more than 5,000 traditional, wooden and worn-out greenhouses across the country.”

“We have planned to renovate about 650 to 700 hectares of traditional and worn-out greenhouses each year,” he added.

The Agriculture Ministry’s Greenhouse Development Program is one of the priority projects of the mentioned ministry which aims at increasing productivity, efficiency, and water consumption management in the agriculture sector; the program was approved in the Iranian calendar year 1395 (ended on March 21, 2017) under the framework of the National Resilient Economy Plan.

The development of the country’s agricultural parks and greenhouses not only is going to create new job opportunities but also increases the country’s non-oil exports and helps to preserve the environment and the national water and soil resources.

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The unveiling ceremony is scheduled to be held during the joint exhibition of Iran and Armenia postal stamps in Arch Bishop Ardak Manoukian Museum in Tehran on April 11, Iran’s Post Company announced on Tuesday.

The exhibit, which is set to be held online due to the outbreak of the coronavirus, will showcase a selection of historical Armenian stamps as well as Iranian stamps issued on Persian New Year (Noruz). It is being co-organized by the Post and Communications Museum and Arch Bishop Ardak Manoukian Museum.

Also known as the Qareh Klise (“the Black Church”), the monastery is one of the oldest surviving Christian monuments in the country. It is situated in Chaldoran county some 20 kilometers from Maku, adjacent to the borders of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Turkey.

The ancient Church shows off elaborate bas-reliefs of flowers, animals, and human figures on its façade and exterior walls. It bears verses of Old and New Testament in Armenian calligraphy as well.

Together with St. Stepanos Monastery and the Chapel of Dzordzor, Qareh Klise was placed on the UNESCO World Heritage list in 2008 under the name “Armenian Monastic Ensembles of Iran”. All three sites are located in West Azarbaijan and are of high significance from historical and cultural perspectives. They bear credible testimony to interchanges with the ancient regional societies in particular the Byzantine, Orthodox, and Persian.

UNESCO has it that the churches bear examples of outstanding universal values of the Armenian architectural and decorative traditions.

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Presently, Iranian engineers are conducting feasibility studies for the construction of this industrial area, he added.

He pointed to the launch of clothing and garment hub in cooperation with Turkey as one of the main objectives behind construction of this industrial area.

Efforts are underway for the attraction of more cooperation and interaction with the Autonomous Republic of Nakhichevan, he said, adding “economic and tourism cooperation will be promoted with this country through Maku Free Zone.”

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 Over $1.1 billion worth of commodities were exported from West Azerbaijan province during the first 10 months of the current fiscal year (through Jan. 20), a senior official said.

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Director General of Azarbaijan Railways General Bureau Shapour Arsalani said that export volume of freight through provincial railways company registered a significant 1.5fold increase in nine months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21 – Dec. 21).

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