Iran’s Agriculture Ministry has launched a joint project with the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on sustainable agricultural production.Director general of the ministry for essential products and grains, Faramak Aziz-Karimi, made the above announcement on Saturday on the sidelines of the First National Conference on the Joint Project held in the city of Maragheh, in cooperation with Iran’s Dryland Agricultural Research Institute (DARI) for increasing productivity and actualizing the potential of rainfed agricultural production, Tasnim News agency reported.He noted that the Iran-FAO project has been implemented since the beginning of the current crop year with the aim of increasing rainfed production sustainability in the provinces of East Azarbaijan, Ardabil, Hamedan and Kurdistan.Referring to the 20% reduction in rainfall in the country this year, Aziz-Karimi pointed out that despite the reduced rainfall, production can be increased using the latest knowhow of domestic and foreign researchers.“Iran has more than 5 million hectares under rainfed cultivation, which yield over 6 million tons of crops annually,” Mozaffar Roustaei, the head of DARI, said at the conference.  (ICE TEHERAN)

Fonte notizia: Financial Tribune