"Currently, Azerbaijan’s 43 agro parks possess nearly 200,000 hectares of areas, of which 83,000 hectares are under irrigation engineering and water management activities. Some 60,000 hectares of them are newly-irrigated areas, Rafig Aslanov, Deputy Chairman of Azerbaijan Amelioration and Water Management OJSC, told the Sustainability Forum 2021, organized by the German-Azerbaijani Chamber of Commerce in Baku and dedicated to the sustainable development of water infrastructure, Report informs.
In addition, according to him, in accordance with the "Action Plan for 2020-2022", the reconstruction of 22 irrigation canals and the creation of 10 new reservoirs has begun.