‌ Annual loss of 65% of fresh water ‌ Agriculture and ‌20% of products ‌

‌According to the economic correspondent of Fars News Agency, Jalal Mahmoudzadeh, a member of the Agriculture Commission in the Islamic Consultative Assembly, stated in the National Meeting of Water and Agriculture Demanders: The facilities provided to the agricultural sector are less than the industry and services sector and more than 130 million tons We produce agricultural products, of which about 15 to 20% are wasted due to lack of proper management, which is a very high figure.

He added: “This year, we are in serious trouble in terms of rainfall, and many farmers were affected in that we are trying to take measures to facilitate solving their problems by proposing solutions.”

Mahmoudzadeh stated: “We follow the law of agricultural insurance, which is one of the cases that has many problems. We in the specialized commission have been dealing with this issue for years and now we inject more than 2,000 billion tomans of government credits into the insurance sector, but few credits.” This requires three times the current credits.

Referring to the recent approval of the law establishing a pricing council for the law on guaranteed purchase of agricultural products, a member of the parliament said: “The guaranteed price of agricultural products has always been low and has not progressed according to the facts. We were buying about 5 million tomans, and in the meantime 8 million was spent on livestock or smuggling, which was due to the lack of real pricing.

Mahmoudzadeh added: “Due to some administrative problems, we have lost the opportunity to participate in global markets in the agricultural sector, for example, we have about 6.5 percent of the Russian market in terms of agricultural products, while Turkey has more than 19 percent.” Its products are sold, and unfortunately we have to say that we have a low figure of agricultural exports in the markets of neighboring countries.

He continued: “Foreign customers are not waiting for us to ask whether we should export agricultural products or not, so in the Agriculture Commission of the parliament, we proposed the law to wait for changes to be made in this regard.”

A member of the parliament’s agriculture commission stated: In no country is the percentage as high as ours wasted Agricultural products are not high, wasted 15 or 20% of agricultural exports are a deplorable figure.

In the end, Mahmoudzadeh said: “In the water sector, we oppress the aquifers and out of 85% of the country’s fresh water consumed in the agricultural sector, about 65% of it is wasted and a low percentage of it is used optimally, so by modifying the method Irrigation, we must go to underground irrigation to prevent water wastage.

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