Damage of 590 thousand billion rials of dust during the last 10 years

According to Fars News Agency, Ali Selajgeh, the head of the Environment Organization, in his video speech at the opening session of the 5th National Conference on Wind Erosion and Dust Storms, which was held today (February 11) at Yazd University, said: Surveys conducted by the Environmental Protection Organization show At present, the area of ​​domestic dust centers in the country is over 35 million hectares and the amount of dust caused by them is over 4.2 million tons of particles under one micron.

He considered the management and control of dust centers impossible only by government organizations and added: “For this purpose, policies should be considered, followed by low-cost and high-efficiency projects with the participation of the people.”

Regarding the involvement of the people, the Vice President considered the economics of dust control projects to be very important and said: “If these projects are economical while managing, adapting and dealing with the dust phenomenon, they can welcome and participate the exploiters, including farmers, ranchers and rangers.” Follow.

Selajgeh, stated: In this regard, all member agencies of the National Policy and Coordination of Dust Phenomena Management Headquarters must take the necessary action carefully and sensitively in accordance with the tasks set out in the Dust Phenomena Coordination and Management Regulations. Among these, a key role to increase the effectiveness and synergy of measures is needed, coherence and cooperation between departments, the central role of which is with the Environmental Protection Organization in the form of this regulation. In fact, organizational cohesion is a key point that has been overlooked in all areas, including management, adaptation, and dust and wind erosion.

The head of the Environmental Protection Organization pointed out: In the mentioned regulation, tasks have been considered for each of the devices, which, if properly and independently of the duties of the partner devices to perform the dam, will lead to more synergy and land management in compatibility and confrontation. Dust in particular will be associated with very good results.

15 million hectares of all dusty areas of the country belong to poor pastures

Citing an example, he explained: Of the dusty areas of the country, 15 million hectares include poor pastures, which in order to manage this land use is needed to be scientifically in the form of management measures such as exclosure and grazing management and the number of livestock with capacity The pastures should be proportionate. These two measures are a set of effective and low-cost measures that should be part of the long-term strategies of the responsible agencies, which can be done widely with the participation of the people.

Selajgeh stated that irrigated and rainfed arable lands cover 4 million and 500 thousand hectares of dusty lands in the country, and specified: to manage and control dusty landscaping in this land use, conservation agriculture education should be considered for farmers. . Studies show that this important issue has been neglected in the Ministry of Jihad for Agriculture.

He pointed out that many plains and wetlands in the country have become dry due to lack of moisture, and the source of dust production. These measures do not necessarily require much credit and most of the management operations that can be considered in the direction of the resistance economy by the responsible agencies and will certainly bring a lot of effectiveness and blessings to the country.

Annual dust losses are equivalent to 20.1% of total GDP

The head of the Environmental Protection Organization, referring to the economic losses of the dust phenomenon, said: “Studies conducted by the National Headquarters in 6 dusty provinces of the country to determine dust damages, show that the total annual damage to the biological and economic resources is equal to / 20% of the total GDP (GDP) of these provinces and the amount of damage caused by the dust phenomenon in a 10-year period (1406-1397) is estimated at 590 thousand billion rials, which can be said, if effective measures can dust The economic well-being of the society will be improved by the same amount in a period of 10 years in these 6 provinces.

He further emphasized: despite all the complexities and difficulties facing dust management and control measures, in the Sixth Development Plan and with the need to plan and carry out operations to combat the dust phenomenon and also by allocating financial resources from the National Development Fund with the permission of the official The Supreme Leader has taken a significant leap forward in taking action against this phenomenon. Despite all the credit constraints in the country, a total of more than 28,000 billion rials has been spent and allocated to manage, adapt and deal with the dust phenomenon and improve the electricity network, which has led to 5.2 million hectares of executive actions by responsible agencies and supervised Has become the national headquarters.

According to Selajgeh, managing, adapting and controlling the dust phenomenon requires coordination, cooperation and participation of public, private, non-governmental organizations and local people in the form of effective executive operations with an economy-oriented approach and in the form of a resistance economy.

The head of the Environmental Protection Agency reminded: “Studies show that the area of ​​foreign dust hotspots affecting the country is more than 270 million hectares, with a dust level of 180 million tons per year of particles below 100 microns.” Therefore, it is necessary to take measures to control and manage transboundary sources of dust by conducting international and regional cooperation in coordination with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and using the capacity of international conventions and institutions.

He added: “According to this, the Environmental Protection Organization has prepared two sub-regional action plans, including a sub-regional action plan for West Asia and a sub-regional action plan for a part of Central and West Asia, which we hope will be able to use these action plans. Implemented the envisaged measures with the cooperation of the countries of the region.

In the end, he wished success to the 5th National Conference on Wind Erosion and Dust Storms, and suggested that the orientation and goals of future articles and studies in the field of dust management be towards meeting the demands of the executive evaluation approach of executive projects, considering low-cost projects and Effective use of new technologies and water-scarce methods, such as the use of indigenous and compatible water-based species with the participation of local communities and NGOs.

Selajgeh also asked the participants to evaluate the effectiveness of past executive projects with the approach of resistance economy and taking into account the climatic and edaphic conditions of the country, especially the lack of moisture and available water resources for executive actions by conducting watershed and aquifer operations that lead to floods. On the one hand, more useful steps should be taken to increase vegetation and reduce dust.

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