INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
TEHRAN - Natural Resources and Watershed Management Organization prepares to gain from the experiences of knowledge-based companies towards
maintaining natural resources.Utilizing the capacity of knowledge-based companies in the field of making systems clever, stopping the
unapproved modification of usage in agricultural lands and natural resources, and implementing projects to renew pastures have been thought
about, Hossein Mir-Rajabi, an authorities with the Organization, said.Seven programs particularly clever managing and keeping an eye on of
natural deposits, formulating and carrying out the revitalization plan, enriching pastures, creating a detailed natural resource management
system, launching a national dispatching center, producing firefighting devices domestically, developing the Internet of Things, and clever
irrigating of plantations have been prepared in this regard.The Ministry of Agriculture has actually designated 311 billion rials (about
$775,000) to the jobs, the main added.Nature partnersIn order to educate, promote and bring in peoples involvement, 215,240 individuals are
trained as partners of nature, the Organizations director for education, promotion, and public involvement, stated in November last
year.Some 83 percent of the lands are presided over by the Organization, including forests and pastures, ISNA estimated Hossein Mirzaei as
saying.On a big scale, the government is unable to manage these areas alone
There is a need for individualss participation to protect natural resources, he added.Nature partners are people who are mainly present in
the field of natural resources, such as farmers, operators, and implementers of natural resources projects, who can assist us in the
protection department.A roadmap for environmental protection has actually been established, Rouhollah Naqdipour, the secretary of the
tactical council of the Department of Environment, has announced.The document provides 13 nationwide macro strategies and 46 cross-sectoral
procedures for five primary ecological obstacles, he said, IRNA reported.The 7-chapter book also suggests reforms for organized purposeful
solutions and policies to resolve environmental issues including the water crisis, he explained.He listed the five major ecological
obstacles of the country as the imbalance between water resources and consumption leading to dry spell, soil erosion, waste and sand and
dust storms, air pollution in cities, destruction of biodiversity and genetic resources, and imbalance in between the environment and
commercial and civil development.Knowledge-based companiesIn December 2022, Reza Asadifar, an authorities with the Vice Presidency for
Science and Technology said presently 7882 knowledge-based firms are operating in the country.The fields of biotechnology, agriculture, food
industries, chemical technologies aircraft maintenance, steel, gas, pharmaceuticals, medical devices and medicine, oil, electronic devices
and telecoms, details innovation, and computer software application are amongst the sectors in which researchers in innovation business are
working.Today, the countrys understanding management community accounts for more than 3 percent of the GDP
And the figure is predicted to reach 5 percent, however, the main objective is to step towards a 10 percent share in GDP, the previous vice
president for science and innovation Sourena Sattari said in February.The share of knowledge-based companies in the countrys economy has
exceeded 9 quadrillion rials (about $34 billion), and considering that 2019, it has experienced a growth of more than 450 percent, he
stated.Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei designated the existing Iranian year as The Year of Production:
Knowledge-Based and Job-Creating
Enhancing knowledge-based business are on the agenda, raising expect minimizing challenges on the course to development.The Leader has
called on all Iranians, consisting of residents and federal government authorities, to strive to enhance knowledge-based production and
