New Cropping Patterns Vital to Curtail Agro Water Consumption

Curbing water use in agriculture, which is the most water-intensive sector, is necessary and the failure to do so will have catastrophic consequences, a leading climatologist and a university professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology said.
“The annual volume of water consumption in Iran has reached 100 billion cubic meters, of which 90 bcm are used for conventional farming practices and it should be cut by half so that the country can meet agricultural needs sustainably in the long run,” Nasser Karami also told Mehr News Agency.
Crop pattern or the list of crops produced in an area and their sequence have been among the major challenges facing Iran’s agriculture sector in the past many years.