Tasnim The Iranian Central Organization for Rural Cooperatives (CORC) plans to adopt new measures to optimize use of natural resources in dry province of Sistan and Balouchestan in southeastern Iran, Deputy Minister of Agricultural Jihad Hossein Shirzad said. Shirzad, who is also the chief executive officer of the CORC, said for boosting agro-entrepreneurship ...

Press TV - Iran goes green on agriculture as farmers are to switch to electric irrigation systems as a result of a government scheme to reduce consumption of diesel in the farms. Head of state-run electricity firm Tavanir said on Thursday that the company had signed an agreement with the Iran Fuel Conservation Company to electrify a total of 750,...

Financial Tribune- Amid low precipitation and water shortage, the government is going to place restrictions on the cultivation of crops in areas of the country where underground water resources are at alarming levels as of the upcoming Iranian year (starting March 21), says Agriculture Minister RVEti. In other areas such as Khuzestan and Mazandaran ...

MNA Deputy energy minister said approximately 1.2 billion cubic meters of water per year will be led to Lake Urmia following a 40% reduction in agricultural water use in the lakes catchment area. Iran's Deputy Energy Minister Rahim Meidani expounded on the role of Kordestan province in restoration of Lake Urmia saying the government is pursuing ...

Iran is expanding dryland farming as a lingering drought is forcing the country to use its resources more prudently and cast off deep-seated wasteful ways. Most of the aquifers which carried water from under mountains into plains for hundreds of years have hit rock bottom, leaving vast expanses of farmland and orchards bone dry. The situation ...

An Iranian official says the country has acquired the technology to convert wastewater produced by households to agricultural water, which can be used for farming. Mostafa Qaneei, secretary of the Headquarters for Developing Biotechnology at Iran's Vice-Presidency for Science and Technology, was quoted by IRNA as saying on Sunday that Iranian technicians ...

[caption id="attachment_109262" align="alignright" width="220"] Boats sit on the bed of the dried-out Urmia lake, northwest of Iran October 4, 2013. REUTERS/United Nations Iran/Handout via Reuters[/caption] (Reuters) - As a child, Mohammad Rahmanpour spent his summers swimming in Lake Orumieh in northwestern Iran - then the largest in the Middle East....