200 knowledge-based agricultural companies have been established in the country
Mohammadreza Safarnejad said: The share of the agricultural sector among the country's knowledge-based companies has increased from four percent to 6.5 percent.
The deputy of the technology office of the country's agricultural research, education and promotion organization stated: The share of the agricultural sector among the country's knowledge-based companies has increased from four percent to 6.5 percent.
He also announced the increase of more than 65% of knowledge-based companies in the agricultural sector and said: With the addition of 200 companies to the knowledge-based companies of the agricultural sector this year, the number of these companies has reached 500.
Mohammad Reza Safarnejad added: According to the plans, the share of the agricultural sector in the country's knowledge-based companies should reach 20 percent.
Safarnejad also announced plans to set up 10 technology parks or technology villages in the agricultural sector in the country and added: 5 parks have been set up so far, one of which is in Qazvin province.
He emphasized: The process of patenting for companies has also been facilitated so that from now on the researchers and researchers of the agriculture and natural resources sector as well as the technology unit will not be involved in bureaucratic procedures.
At the end, Safarnejad stated that the percentage of the national GDP should be allocated to the production of knowledge-based companies in the agricultural sector, and reminded: 800 technological needs have been identified in the field of agriculture and various sub-sectors of this field, and we hope that the knowledge-based companies will study and provide appropriate output to solve them. to have