Research Center for Agriculture and Natural Resources of Fars Province: Research Stations

Miyan Janghal Fasa

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The Kowsar floodwater spreading and aquifer management station

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The Kowsar floodwater spreading, aquifer management, training and extension station is located in the Gareh Bygon plain, 190 km to the southeast of Shiraz, Iran. Elevation of the Kowsar station varies 1140 m above sea level. The station was known as an aquifer management station from 1982 in Iran. Thirteen floodwater spreading systems, covering an area of 2033 ha was designed and constructed during 1983-2003. This station was selected in January 1983 with the main objective of utilizing floodwater to stabilize the moving sand by sedimentation of the suspended load while recharging an empty aquifer with a potential volume of 100 million m³. More than 156 million m³ has added to the aquifer and pump through 130 wells for developing of agriculture in the area. In this research station has carried out 24 research project, 14 master science thesis and 4 Ph.D. theses, from foreign and international universities in different aspects of floodwater harvesting, recharge groundwater, and environmental. Six regional and international workshops have implemented from 1997 to 2006. More than 1000 students, managers and ministers have visited this station.

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Estahban Station

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Fars province with about 36000 hectares under fig cultivation has the first position in fig production among the other provinces in Iran. Estahban district with 20000 hectares under fig cultivation is the center of fig cultivation in the Fars province as well as in Iran. Estahban is approximately located on 175 kilometers east of Shiraz. The altitude of Estahban is about 1760 meters above the sea level and the average rain fall is about 330 per year. The total area that is under orchard cultivation is 28575 hectares which has been raised under irrigated and rain fed condition. The area under rain fed condition is 62.5% of total The crops cultivated under rain fed conditions are fig, almond and grape. The most important rain fed tree in this district is fig (Ficus carica L.), which is cultivated in an area of 20000 hectares with about two million number productive trees. The total weight of dry fig production is about 15000000 -20000000 kg per year in Estahban. The fig trees are cultivated on the high slopes, hills and flat land. It really has a beautiful landscape so when travelers are passing or visiting Estahban for the first time, they are surprised and they think these are natural forests. Any kind of chemical fertilizer or pesticide is not used in fig orchard.

Estahban fig research station is located at about three kilometers far from Estahban town. The area under research station is about 10 hectares. The station practically started working from 1995. It has an office building, laboratory, two greenhouses, fig collection and experimental fig trees.

170 Km far from Shiraz this station is located on the east of the Fars province.

Multipurpose trees, Pharmaceutical plant research station
This station is 1300m above the sea level and has an area of about 32 ha. Research activities started since 1370(1991) So far several research projects have been carried out or still are ongoing.

Plant Genetic Resource research station
This station located in Fasa Mianjangal and 65 kilometers far from west of Estahban in the Fars province. Its objects are protection of survey ground vegetation from genetic drift. In primary steps to determine growing units; topography maps and satellite pictures were studied. Floristic evaluations were accomplished on collected and identified plants. The results showed that they were belonged to 213 plant species. Mresituated and also life spectra of the region was drawn. In this region, plants with trophy tic life were dominated. Vegetation in protected station with nun-protected adjacent area was compared and evaluated.

Head of Station: Zare, Hamid (Horticulture Sciences)

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Eghlid Station

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EARS was funded in 1996 for the crop investigating (especially wheat, bean, potato & sugar beet) in cold regions of the north of the Fars Province.

EARS owns more than 100 total areas potentially suitable for cultivation which its half is unutilized due to land leveling and 50 ha area is under rotation of crops.

The main projects are in following subjects:
- Plant breeding programs
- Agronomic studies
- Soil and water research projects
- Plant nutrition projects
- Seed certification
- Soil fertility

Head of Station: Hosseini, Seyyed Masha Allah (Soil fertility and plant nutrition)

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Darab Station

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Darab agricultural research station (DARS), is one of the four oldest, largest and major agricultural research stations in Iran. DARS has three related stations, including Hassan abad, Bkhtagerd and Ghiassi. Asada bad garden is also a part of this station. The main office is in Hassan abad. DARS potentially owns more than 1000 ha suitable for cultivation, but due to water limitation and land leveling its half is unutilized.

Related stations
Hassan abad
Hassan abad is the largest related station of DARS. Besides crop and horticultural fruit production, main office and research division offices are in this related station. Hasan abad Includes almost 650 ha area which its 320 ha is unutilized and other 330 ha is under rotation of crops (wheat, corn, cotton, canola) and some horticultural trees. Annually more than 100 ha of cereal seed multiplication, mainly bread wheat is produced in Hassan abad related station and cereal breeding experiments are also conducted in this station. Five well and two permanent subterranean supply Hassan abad irrigating water requirements.
Bakhtagerd
This station is 20 kilometers far from Hassan abad station almost with the same climatically characteristics. It owns 250 ha high quality, which is irrigated with three wells. Annually 100 hectares are cultivated for multiplication bread and durum wheat seeds. In order to do some agronomic experiments, crops like cereal, oil seeds and cotton are planted in Bakhtagerd station.
Gheiasi: This related station owns 120 ha arable land, but due to recently droughts and lack of irrigation water, it is not active now.

Head of Station: Tavakoli, Amir Reza (Citrus research)

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Dorz Sayeban Lamerd

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Dorz and sayeban research and training station is about 500 ha in extent. It established in 1996 with the main objectives of flood control and artificial recharge of groundwater in Dorz plain. 1500 seeding of Eucalyptus and Acacia planted in this station. Now, the feature of this desert has changed. We annually monitor soil, vegetative cover, hydrometry, and groundwater data.

Head of Station: Ghahari, Gholamreza (Geomorphology, Geology, Floodwater spreading)

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Mammasani

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Firoozabad

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Kazeroon Station

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Kazeroon olive research station established in order to do research on breeding and improvement of olive crop. This is one of four olive research stations of Iran which covers all the areas inside the Fars province and the other provinces in south of the country.
Olive research station of kazeroon was established in an area of 48 ha, in 1996 .This station has a collection of Iranian and imported cultivars of olive and acclimatization stock orchard. A greenhouse with mist system for olive propagation is included .In the laboratory of the Kazeroon station all the quantitative measurement could be applied on olive fruits. This station is a unique source for cutting and scions of different olive cultivars.

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Neyriz Station

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Neyriz Animal Science Research Station (N.A.S.R.S.) is located about 215 km in east of the Shiraz city. It is established to doing research designs on Fars native sheep and goats in 1991. For doing projects in this station, in 1999 an animal house with 950 m^{2 area (450 m 2 roofed and 500 m 2 without roofed) was established. During of 1991-2000, there was a well with 4 inch/sec discharge. After that due to consecutively drought, that well dried and all of agricultural planting was stopped.
Up to the present in this station was did some research as:}

^{Finished Projects:
-Feedlot performance and carcass characteristics of Fars native goats.
-Recognition of Torky Ghashghayi sheep in the Fars province.
-Reducing fat in T.G. sheep through selecting for smaller fat-tails. 1) Investigation the relationship between fat-tail measurement and body fat in T.G. sheep for use in breeding.
-Study of nutritional sources used by animal and poultry in the Fars province., I: Evaluation of two range plants (Prangos ferulaceae and Gundelia tournefortii).
-Study of nutritional sources used by animal and poultry in the Fars province., II: Evaluation of four range plants (Ferula spp., Dorema Aucheri, Bromus tomentellus and Hordeum bulbosum).
-Comparison of two fattening systems of Fars native goat kids.
-Fattening performance and carcass characteristics of castrated Fars native kids in different periods.
-Improving the nutritive value of Glycrrhiza Glabra by urea treatment and assessing its effect on fattening of male lamb.}

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Jahrom Station

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This research station was established in 1971 in East-South of the Fars Province. All attentions in this station are focused on Citrus and Date Palm. Most of investigations are about plant nutrition, water requirement, plant improvement and breeding, plant pathology and botany in relation with Citrus and Date palm.
This station includes 4 disciplines as follows:
- Soil and water research discipline
- Horticulture discipline
- Plant pathology discipline
- Botany discipline
6 M. Sc., One B. Sc. and 2 technicians work here. Several causal workers are also employed each year for gardening activities based on the station requirements.

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