Annually 30 varieties of wheat in Iran and 800 varieties in France are introduced to farmers

Deputy Minister of Agriculture announced the strengthening
of wheat research institutes in the country and stated that we would conclude a
contract for them, saying: “Our policy is to protect the state and, in
parallel, to support the private sector.”

According to the Ministry of Agriculture, Abbas Keshavarz,
referring to the activities of the 6 wheat research institutes in the country,
which recorded their number, added: “In the state and private transfer
method, we must put aside the previous methods because it does not work
economically, and the experiment should be revised and followed by local
adaptations.

“We have started a program called PVS, which allows
cultivating cultivars in different fields of agriculture, and each farmer would
have to buy a variety in proportion to its climate,” he continued.

Undersecretary of State for Agriculture, emphasizing that
there should be no hindrance in implementing for the speed and adaptation of
the local and the private sector, “We need to be technical in agriculture
because the history of agricultural consumption is outdated.

The farmer, pointing out that seed is a private seed
business, added: overseeing, controlling, producing, and exporting and … are
in the hands of the private sector and the government should not enter.

He noted that the government intervention in this area is
intense and weak, adding that in the 30’s native wheat was collected and named, and since wheat was
important for the country, in the 40’s the government used time to research the
wheat from the FAO.

According to him, an annual maximum of 25-30 varieties in
Iran for wheat and barley are introduced to farmers, which is more than 800 in
France and 450 in Turkey.

“All the efforts of farmers, planners, policymakers,
the private sector, the bank, etc., in the production of time answers that
genetics, 60% of the production in the gene and 40% is related to the
gene,” he said.

“Our policy is that governments have no right to create
a monopoly for the producer, so we are not allowed to tell the farmer what seed
and pest is used, but we should try to persuade the farmer,” he said.