Improve Agriculture Monitoring Systems through Satellite Imagery for Iran - TCP/IRA/3603
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In the Islamic Republic of Iran, more frequent extreme climate events, such as floods, drought and frosts, are adversely affecting agricultural production in the country Changes in precipitation amounts, seasonality, intensity and distribution are impacting rainfed agriculture, and warming temperatures are changing growing seasons In the face of this environmental complexity, there is a need for a comprehensive, systematic and accurate agricultural monitoring system Against this background, the Ministry of Agriculture Jahad ( requested that FAO provide assistance in setting up an improved agriculture monitoring system, based on the integral use of advanced geospatial technologies, to support the development of the techniques, policy and investment conditions required to achieve sustainable agricultural development under climate change, with a geographic focus on three pilot areas Mazandaran and Zanjan provinces and south of Kerman Province The current project was foreseen as a precursor to a larger project, which would focus on applying the methodological approaches developed during this project for country crop area and yield estimation.