وبلاگ تخصصی مهندسین مرتع و آبخیزداری

Ministry of Jihad - e- keshavarzi

Watershed management department and UNDP

Watershed management of Jihad – e – keshavarzi organization

(Tehran province)

The national action program on sustainable management of land and water recourses

Lazour pilot village

Lazour is one of the 8 pilots in Hable-Roud watershed and one of the villages in Firouzkouh township. It is a mountainous village with a very cold winters and mild summers.

The annual average of precipitation is 470mm(average of 18 years) and the highest is 2380(m).The area of range is 14000(ha) which over 14000 sheep are grazing. About 2600 people are living in Lazour Which is one of the populous villages in Firouzkouh. There are some traditional customs, which are the basis of village management.

Some of them are as follow:

* The management of irrigation (Beneseh)

* The management of range (Gateh chekenen)

* To milk and collect it in the range by women (Shirvareh)

Take part in planning and programming is one of the women right

Hableh roud project in Lazour :

This project has started since 1998 in this village.

Some of the main activities are as follow:

* To select the animators by rural people a woman and man.

 * Animators took part in Damavand training workshop. (1999- winter)

* The workshops organized in village by animator and facilitator. (1999- spring)

 * The priority problems selected in workshops by rural people in1999 – spring & summer.

 * The first compose workshop organized between rural

people and experts for Kashk-e-rez project (to control

flood and sediment) which had offered by rural

 People in 1999- summer.

 * The rural fund organized in1999- summer.

* The first part of Kashk-e-rez project started in1999-autumn.

* The second part of Kashk-e-rez project started in2000-spring.

* To start the third part of Kashk-e-rez project in 2001-spring.

Other priority and projects:

* Siah roud dam(To reserve irrigation water.

* To control of Tarinza flood and sediment.

* Training and plantation of medicine plants (By women). 

*Training the women how to produce egg and meet of domestic fowl(as an eco-activities).

Kashk-e-rez project:

This project was offered by rural people to control the flood and sediment (run off) of  Kashk-e-rez region. This region placed in north of  Lazour. The activities in this project are as follow:

* To construct Chek dams

* To construct Gabion  Chek dams

* To construct irrigation water reservoir

* To construct terraces

* To construct soil saving dams

* To plant 6000 fruitful trees

* To plant range seed (It had done by women)

* To improve Avin spring

* To construct agricultural road