Monitoring and investigating the effectiveness of crop-improvement and plant-breeding techniques(3th -phase)

The project “Contribution to Restoration of Lake Urmia via Local Community Participation in Sustainable Agriculture and Biodiversity Conservation” has been considered as one of the activities of Lake Urmia Restoration, in which the Department of Environment and the Ministry of Agricultural Jihad in cooperation together has tried to train and participate farmers in the region to modify traditional farming practices to increase water productivity on farms while preserving the interests and income of farmers in the region, in order to save on applied water at the farm level, it will also be helpful to provide part of Water right of  Lake Urmia. In order to achieve these goals, implementation of various agricultural and management techniques conservation agriculture systems, irrigation systems correction, irrigation based on actual crop requirement, selection of suitable cultivation patterns, agronomic and horticultural cultivars, planting date, deficit irrigation, management irrigation, irrigation  alternate, evaporation reduction, Optimization of the dimensions of irrigation plots and ... on the farm scale in the lands of Lake Urmia Basin in the form of sustainable agriculture project entitled “Contribution to Restoration of Lake Urmia via Local Community Participation in Sustainable Agriculture and Biodiversity Conservation” are being performed since 2014. The general purposes of the research in 2016- 2017 were continuation of capacity development in the engineering and technical companies in the project based on previous experience and the evaluation of the effectiveness of various agronomic practices implemented in the fields on reducing the water input to the farm in new villages and increasing productivity, monitoring the performance of technical and engineering companies and the implementation of training courses required in the region.