Iran’s deputy agriculture minister for horticulture affairs announced the annual production of four million tons of quality greenhouse products in the country.
Mohammad-Mehdi Boroumandi said that Iran’s modern greenhouses are not only equal to European modern greenhouses, but also superior in some cases. In the field of horticulture, one of the important programs based on the government’s plans is the development of greenhouses in the country, for which many efforts have been made to commercialize and improve their quality, the official stated.
“In the past, we depended on other countries to create greenhouses, and even our greenhouse structures were imported from abroad, but now we have reached a point where we help many countries in the world and neighboring countries in developing greenhouses”, he further highlighted.
In last July, the director of the Agriculture Ministry’s Greenhouse Development Program announced that 23,000 hectares of lands are under greenhouse cultivation throughout the country. Mehdi Lotfi-Zadeh also said that 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.
As stated by the deputy agriculture minister, the development of greenhouse cultivation is a major policy of the Agriculture Ministry.
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.—Tehran Times
