Iran Pressing Ahead With Agricultural Outsourcing

Iran’s geographical location on dry latitudes, its drastically changing climate, low precipitation levels (a third of global average), drought, high water consumption, diminishing water resources, soil degradation and low agricultural productivity are making it necessary for the country to take agricultural outsourcing more seriously to ensure food security and protect its vulnerable environment, says the manager of Agriculture Ministry’s “Farming Beyond Borders” program.
“In the next [fiscal] year’s budget bill [March 2022-23], the government has given priority to the import of agricultural crops cultivated in foreign countries under the ‘Farming Beyond Borders’ program rather than crops simply imported by traders,” Mohsen Shaterzadeh was also quoted as saying by the news portal of Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture...