Over 12m hectares of lands ready to go under national
cultivation plan: Official

An Iranian deputy agriculture minister said over 12 million
hectares of the country’s arable lands are ready to be cultivated under the
national cultivation pattern.

“The cultivation pattern for over 12.300.000 hectares of
arable lands producing more than 30 types of products across the country has
been implemented with the aim of managing practices to increase water
efficiency in the agricultural sector and cutting dependence on basic
products,” Shahpour Alaei Moghadam, the Iranian agricultural deputy minister
for economy and planning, said on Wednesday.

The plan will be implemented for five years, he added,
noting the overall output of the 30 products is expected to increase by 10
million tons annually.

The cultivation pattern as a national plan after years of
study and research was unveiled by the Ministry of Agriculture in the current
Iranian calendar year (started on March 21, 2022) and was announced to the country's
farmers for the current crop year.

According to the experts, if it is implemented well, the
project can have the upper hand in terms of mass production of products during
the drought.

In the general program of the Agriculture Ministry, it is
stated that the correct cultivation pattern is a plan for the spatial
management of the cultivation of agricultural plants.

Cultivation pattern is a plan that has been used for many
years in advanced societies and many countries of the world to solve many problems
in agriculture, forestry and pastures with the help of this method.

Regarding the existence of diverse climates in different
regions, creating a suitable cultivation pattern, that can make maximum use of
the production factors, especially the limiting factor such as water, is of
particular importance.

The implementation of the cultivation pattern in the country
greatly contributes to the stability of production and food security.

As previously reported, the necessary infrastructures for
the implementation of the cultivation pattern plan have been established in all
provinces, and 17 provinces are especially prioritized for implementation.