Head of FRWO Called for Special Attention of the Parliament to the Natural Resources in the Next Annual Budget

Khalil Aghaee, Deputy Minister and Head of Forests, Range and Watershed Management Organization (FRWO) in a meeting with a number of parliamentarians called for special attention of the Parliament to natural resources and watershed management in the next annual budget.

Khalil Aghaee, in separate meetings with Mr. Asghar Salimi, MP of Semirom, Mr. Asghar Masoudi, MP of Neyriz and Estahban, Mr. Aynullah Sharifpour, MP of Maku, Shout, Poldasht and Chaldoran, Mr. Ali Jalili, MP of Maragheh and Ajbasheer, Mr. Seyyed Razi Nouri, MP of Shoush electorates in the Islamic Consultative Assembly provided a report regarding the implementation of IWM projects funded by the National Development Fund this year and emphasized the special attention of the Parliament to the natural resources and watershed management sector.

He referred to the special attention of the high-ranking authorities, especially the Supreme Leader in the allocation of $ 200 million from the National Development Fund and said that the good measures are being taken in the field of aquifers recharge and ​​watershed management. Aghaee added watershed management and aquifers recharge operations will be carried out in more than 800 thousand hectares by the end of the year, from which 650 basins in 341 cities has already gone under implementation with 70% physical achievement.

Head of FRWO emphasized the necessity of enhanced collaboration and  coordination among executive agencies in line with the objectives dramatized in the Sixth Development Plan for the realization of IWM in the country and said that it is anticipated that 10 million hectares of existing basins go under IWM in the Sixth Development Plan.

Deputy Minister stressed that in order to achieve the goals set out in the Sixth Development Plan; two million hectares of basins must go under watershed management plans annually, which needs 20,000 billion RLs of state budget annually.

In these meetings, the MPs emphasized the continuation of IWM implementation that satisfies equally the people and the farmers.