Director General of Watershed Management and Soil
Conservation Bureau of FRWO noted that in the past three years, some budget
have been allocated from the National Development Fund (NDF) for the
implementation of integrated watershed management (IWM) projects, and said:
"During this period, IWM operations have been implemented in four
million hectares of the country's watersheds."

According to FRWO's website, Houshang
Jazi, Director General of Watershed Management and Soil Conservation
Bureau of FRWO, on the sidelines of the workshop on of integrated watershed
management (IWM) of Karun-e-Bozorg basin in Chaharmahal & Bakhtiari
province, reiterated: "Currently, detailed studies and implementation
of IWM projects have been carried out in 33 million hectares of the
country's lands".

He said that in the last three years, based on resources
allocated from the National Development Fund to IWM projects in 900
watersheds, FRWO is formulating plans for the development of natural
resource projects and implementation of the projects is still underway in
some of these watersheds.

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