Iran: Setting up 8 agricultural land pumping stations in Lorestan

Syed Emad Shahrokhi said in an interview with ISNA: "With the efforts of colleagues in the Agricultural Jihad Organization, especially in the water and soil management of the cities and centers of the Agricultural Jihad, we are witnessing the movement of setting up pumping stations in the province." He stated: In the past 3 years, 8 pumping stations, some of which had been operational since 20 years ago and some of which were seriously damaged in the 2018 flood, were set up from national and provincial sources. The head of Lorestan Agricultural Jihad Organization added: With the establishment of these stations, 3 thousand hectares of the province's rainfed lands will be covered by modern irrigation systems, and we will witness at least a 5-fold increase in production in these lands, as well as an increase of 15 thousand tons in the production of the province. He considered the creation of hope and general satisfaction among the farmers to be important and continued: the last ...