Head of FRWO announced:

The Need to Replace the Medicinal Herbs Cultivation with Rain-Fed Cultivation



Head of FRWO emphasized encouraging farmers to cultivate medicinal herbs and
replacing these products with rein-fed cultivation in agricultural lands of
Khuzestan province. Head of FRWO emphasized encouraging farmers to cultivate
medicinal herbs and replacing these products with rein-fed cultivation in
agricultural lands of Khuzestan province.

According to FRWO's website, quoted from Young Journalists
Club (YJC), Massoud Mansour, Deputy Minister and Head of FRWO, during a trip to
Khuzestan province and on the sidelines of a meeting with the Directors
Generals of the Natural Resources and Watershed Management Department (NRWD)
and Agricultural-Jahad Organization in Khuzestan said: "If the
agricultural land is rain-fed, in the event of a drought in drought prone
areas, it not only will not benefit the people, but the land itself will become
a DSS hot spot".

Mansour referred to planting in 81,000 hectares of land in
Khuzestan in order to stabilize hotspots and stated:
"while about 150 hectares of these areas have been controlled by mulching
with the implementation of live and non-living windbreaks, about 85 hectares
have been controlled by mulching, but according to the new instructions, desert
areas of Khuzestan are not included in the mulching plan for this
year. FRWO will use new and alternative mulching sprays."

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