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CAIS ARCHAEOLOGICAL & CULTURAL NEWS OF IRANIAN WORLD© |
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Smokes From Wheat Farms Threatens Persepolis
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08 July 2006 |
LONDON,
(CAIS) -- Each year farmers in Fars province set fire
to the stalks of wheat on their farms at the end of the harvest season--a
practice which has posed a threat to the environment and maintenance of
historical monuments at Persepolis (Takht-e Jamshid), reported Persian Service
of CHN.
Farmers in the province believe that burning the wheat stalks, which creates
smoke and emits toxic gases into the atmosphere, at the end of the harvest
season, will nurture the soil and prepare it for better cultivation in
subsequent years.
Director of Persepolis Cultural Heritage Department, Maziar Kazemi is critical
of this practice and has called for legal actions to prevent farmers from
engaging in this action.
“The smoke and poisonous gas created by setting wheat farms ablaze has
definite impact on the maintenance of historical sites. The carbon dioxide,
carbon monoxide and carbonic gas produced by burning the wheat stalks are also
harmful to tourists visiting the cultural site,“ Kazemi said.
He said that Iran’s Cultural Heritage and Tourism Organization (ICHTO) has
already called for legal mechanisms to deal with the hazardous practice of the
farmers, but, they are not being enforce by respective departments of the
province.
Kazemi said that Persepolis site is surrounded by wheat farms and farmers do not
heed ICHTO’s request not to create smoke by burning the stalks every year
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