mohammadreza balali

In the first part of this paper, multi-dimensional understanding of the soil and water management of agricultural lands of Honam Sub-catchment was provided by determining the 53 homogeneous soil and water management units (HSWMUs), current behavior assessment of the farmers, and the yield gap analysis. It was found that efficiency of water and fertilizer consumption in the region was relatively low. Therefore, soil and water management packages including soil fertility management, irrigation management and land degradation prevention were prepared for each HSWMUs. The method of preparation and validation steps of management packages is the subject of this paper. To transfer the achieved knowledge and technology and to evaluate and validate the recommended packages, Aliabad Agricultural Jihad Center of Lorestan was selected as an innovation platform. Scaling-up was carried out by active cooperation of multi-level local to national experts to hold a technology exhibition including management of optimal use of chemical, organic and biological fertilizers, and irrigation methods to test the research results. To this end, the selected technologies and recommendations were implemented at volunteer farmers’ fields. The pilots were separated into two treatments of farmers' conventional practice and integrated recommendation in the beet-wheat rotation. The results of the best bet showed that, on average, crop production of winter wheat increased from 5 to 7.5 t/ha and water use efficiency improved by 13%. These results were displayed to other farmers on the field day, which matched up with the time of wheat harvest. By proofing the effectiveness of the results in the farmers' fields, the soil and water management packages of the region were prepared. Despite holding workshops for farmers, results were not scaled to others. We found that the out-scaling of soil and water management packages within HSWMUs and improvement of the average yield along with the principles of sustainability is rooted in three gaps: yield, research and development, and value chain gap. In other words, the awareness and motivation of the farmers, the ability to implement recommendations, and the availability of facilities are the basic conditions for filling crop yield gap in the region. Therefore, one-year pilots are not effective enough and should be continued for several years. Afterward, the capacity building of local extensions at the Soil and Water Research Institute (SWRI) was carried out to show the different stages of preparing HSWMUs, recommendations and instructions. All data were transferred to the innovation platform in digital and printed format. Receiving feedback and to continue scaling-out under spiral proses method, a number of farmers of HSWMUs who volunteered to test the recommended packages in their farms were selected, and the pilots was designed based on participatory research. It is expected that with the establishment of long-term demonstration farms and the provision of various requirements such as the existence of various fertilizers and other agricultural inputs by the collaboration of public and private sectors, the transfer of recommendations to other farmers as well as decision makers of the sub-basin is facilitated.

This study expresses the steps of achievement to the indigenous-executive framework of integrated soil and water management at farm level through a mega project with 19 sub-projects. The projects were carried out during 2013-2020 with active participation of international, national and regional experts as well as local farmers in Honam Sub-basin, Lorestan Province, Iran. To understand the soil and water management problems for agriculture in the same homogeneous units (HSWMUs), farmlands were classified regarding physical, chemical and biological characteristics of soil, making it possible to convert soil maps into thematic maps. In this research, the fertility capability classification (FCC) method that integrates surface and sub-surface soil textures with modifieres was used. In addition, several modifieres were revised for soils of semi-arid regions and new modifieres were introduced for Irrigation Capability Classification (ICC). The required information was collected from 119 soil profiles and 101 surface soil samples in detailed scale of 1:25000 and the corresponding measurements were made. Accordingly, different data layers including detailed soil map were produced via geopedological method icluding land limitation, land suitability, and land production potential (LPP) of major crops, land degradation, location of water withdrawal, land use and agricultural cadastre of 2395 farms were prepared. To evaluate the current soil and water behavior of farmers within HSWMUs, the multidisciplinary team recorded the issues through field visits and open semi-structured questionnaire of 84 selected farmers in 24 villages who were interviewed during 2018-2019. The results showed that 23 and 30 HSWMUs that covered, respectively, 93% and 90% of the irrigated and rainfed areas were delineated on the map. Investigations showed that the sub-basin suffers from problems such as plow pan, phosphorus and zinc deficiencies, poor irrigation scheduling, and three types of farmers. Finally, recommended packages were prepared and validated for each HSWMU, which will be discussed in the part 2.

In congruence with the idea of sustainable development, integrated soil fertility and plant nutrition management has received global attention. The challenges facing soil fertility and plant nutrition in Iran include low soil organic carbon and nutrient contents, imbalanced plant nutrition, low nutrient efficiency, ineffective soil fertility system, environmental stresses, non-efficient fertilizer application, and inadequate knowledge transfer to users. Under these conditions, recommending proper fertilizers will be a multi-faceted and complex task. The development of a framework that incorporates all the factors involved into a single management package is the prerequisite to the integrated soil fertility and plant nutrition management as a smart system for applying an optimal assortment of chemical, organic, and biological sources of nutrients well adapted to environmental and local conditions and aimed at optimized exploitation of inherent soil capacities in a cropping system while sparing negative effects on soil ecological services. The desired integrated management system must be capable of duly accounting for all the components including plant variety; chemical, organic, and biological fertilizers; cropping system; climatic and soil conditions; and socio-economic parameters. The present study introduces the following three steps to achieve an integrated management system: 1) participation of all the stakeholders in the design, prioritization, implementation, and monitoring processes; 2) integrated use of chemical, organic, and bio-fertilizers in terms of amounts, timing, and method of application well adapted to the nutritional requirements of the plant varieties grown in the established cropping system with due consideration of environmental stresses; and 3) dissemination of localized knowledge and know-how of the integrated management system with the help of local extensionists and volunteer farmers from a pilot farm for replication and achievement of the expected outcomes in other farming sites.

Methadone is a product derived from heroin that is available in drug stores as a 1mg/ml syrup. Methadone is a long acting drug with a roughly 24-hour half-life . Poisoning from opiates is one of the most dangerous and prevalent causes of poisoning in Imam Reza hospital (North- East of Iran), and its pattern has changed in the form of increased poisoning from methadone in recent years. The goal of this study is to evaluate why methadone poisoning in children under 6 years old have been increasing in recent years
This cross-sectional study was done on all children referred to Imam Reza Hospital’s pediatric emergency room for cause and agent of poisoning during 2015, to identify the number and the most common cause of poisoning; evaluated demographic data showed methadone poisoning as the most common cause of accidental poisoning in children.
In one year 3395 child admitted in the pediatric emergency room, including 409 cases (12%) of intoxication; 256 of these cases had different opium poisoning (62.5%) and 69 cases (16.8%) had methadone poisoning. In methadone poisoning 39 cases were male and 30 female. 25-48 months and 4-24 months age groups had the most cases of methadone poisoning, respectively.
In the emergency center the most common poisoning is opioid compounds especially methadone, likely due to the availability of methadone syrup in pharmacies. Parents use methadone to give up addiction. Poisoning occurred because children like to open bottles and accidentally consume its contents.