Aug 26, 2005, 9:08 PM

Over 3000 rural agricultural projects to come on stream in Government Week

TEHRAN, Aug. 26 (MNA) — During the Government Week (August 24 to 30, 2005), some 3,523 infrastructural projects in the agriculture and the rural development sectors will come on stream.

“These projects in different parts of the country facilitated by 1,648,281 million rials credit would be completed during the Government Week,” IRNA quoted an official in the Ministry of Agriculture Jihad as saying.

 

The projects would create about 21,886 job opportunities and provide services for the urban, rural and tribal families in the country, he said.

 

Water and soil management, agronomy and horticulture, agricultural research, training and extension, forest and range preservation, watershed management, fish farming, poultry and other livestock breeding, fisheries, veterinary medicine, rural industries and tribal affairs are the main development projects to be completed during the period, the report indicated.

 

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