Soil & Water

Soil and water salinity is one of the most important factors threatening the country's lands, which will and will pose a serious challenge to the sustainability of production and the achievement of food security. According to studies conducted on the country's soil resources, of 18.5 million hectares of agricultural land, about 8 million hectares of irrigated land and of this amount, about 8.6 million hectares are affected by salinity. Therefore, determining the distribution and zoning status of these soils with manageable scales in order to study the expansion process and the necessary operations for improvement and improvement.

To meet the needs of many projects for the improvement of saline and sodium soils, such as the quality of irrigation water, including increasing the ratio of magnesium to calcium and their carbonate, the use of halophytes to produce oil and forage, due to the availability of resources Seawater and watersheds have a special place in soil and water management in the country. In this regard, Jihad Nasr Fars Company has not given up its efforts and has taken effective steps in this direction, which are mentioned below:

Construction of 4 irrigation pumping stations, a drainage pumping station, 80 km of low pressure GRP and polyethylene pipes, 577 km of underground drainage, 82 km of open drainage and leveling of more than 2500 hectares of lands in Shalamcheh and Valiasr village.

Construction of 110 km of irrigation canals and 1100 km of underground drainage and 99 km of open drainage and leveling of more than 5562 hectares of the right bank of Ramshir plain - District 2