Iran plans to set up 150,000 ha of new greenhouses

The director of the Agriculture Ministry's Greenhouse
Development Program said 150,000 hectares of new greenhouses are planned to be
set up in the country during a five-year program based on the Seventh National
Development Plan.

23,000 hectares of lands are under greenhouse cultivation
throughout the country, Mehdi Lotfizadeh, announced recently.

He added that the government attaches great importance to
the development of greenhouse cultivation across the country, according to
Tehran Times.

In this regard, several projects have been defined and
introduced to the banks, and as soon as the notification is made, the projects
will receive facilities and their implementation will begin, the official
added.

In recent years, the water crisis has caused serious
challenges in Iran’s agriculture sector.

To solve this problem, several solutions, including the
implementation of pressurized irrigation projects and greenhouse cultivation,
have been emphasized by experts and officials in this sector.

Iranian Agriculture Ministry’s Greenhouse Development
Program is one of the priority projects of this 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
(which ended on March 20, 2017) under the framework of the National Resilient
Economy Plan.