Experts Question Iran’s Agro Outsourcing Project in Venezuela

During the Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s recent visit to Iran, Tehran and Caracas reached an agreement for Iran to launch an agricultural outsourcing project on about 1 million hectares of arable land in the South American country. 
Experts, however, are questioning the feasibility of such an arrangement
Among the concerns put forward by agricultural experts are handicaps related to the distance and transportation of yields, technological shortcomings and lack of industrial machinery and equipment, the Persian daily Etemad reported.
Vice chairman of Iran’s House of Farmers said agro outsourcing agreements were previously reached with some countries in the Eastern Bloc, but all failed to bear results.
“Our country is located in a dry and semi-dry part of the world where drought and water shortage are serious issues. In the past few years, droughts have come at shorter intervals and water shortage has exacerbated. Therefore, farming beyond border schemes seem to be a propitious solution to ensure food safety,” Enayatollah Biyabani added.