BAKU, Azerbaijan, October 18. Iran will once again implement the plan to boost agricultural production in East Azerbaijan Province, located in the northwest of the country, in the current planting year (September 23, 2023 through September 21, 2024), Director of Iran's East Azerbaijan Province Agriculture Department Akbar Fathi said, Trend reports.
Fathi noted that the plan aims to protect 30 percent of the vegetation, grow crops vertically along the slope, plant directly without tilling, and turn unused land into farmland.
This plan was first carried out in the previous planting year (September 23, 2022 through September 22, 2023) in East Azerbaijan Province. He added that under this plan, 500,000 hectares of dry-farming land were used to produce agricultural goods. The plan cost 740 billion rials (about $17.6 million), and the farmers earned 17.7 trillion rials (about $421 million) from it.
The director also said that for the current planting year, they plan to use 600,000 hectares of dry-farming land to grow wheat, barley, peas, lentils, camelina, rapeseed, and sunflower.
The province of East Azerbaijan in Iran has a rich agricultural sector. It has about 1.2 million hectares of land for crops and 100,000 hectares of land for orchards. Every year, the province produces more than 5 million tons of various agricultural products.
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