TEHRAN, October 21 - At present, 330 women’s rural cooperative companies, with 61,325 members and a total capital of $614,279 are operating in 2,238 villages across Iran, said a deputy agricultural Jihad minister.
TEHRAN, June 26 -A fast-moving wildfire that has already destroyed 22 structures and is being driven by erratic winds and high temperatures forced some 3,000 people to flee as it threatened to cut off access to a rural community in Northern California on Monday, June 25.
TEHRAN, June 03 - Indian farmers voted overwhelmingly for Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the 2014 general election that swept him to power. He cannot count on them doing so again, as a crash in commodity prices and surging fuel costs stoke anger in the countryside.
TEHRAN, YJC. Gerik and Zirana are two villages in the province where the local government does not allow construction of new buildings due to the very old age of their existing houses.
TEHRAN, YJC. The nostalgia of some undisharmonized beauty and a little peace is what a down-towner is immediately gotten by when looking at a picture of rural life.
TEHRAN, YJC. Living within straight walls and streets in towns means losing the wild curvatures and beautiful asymmetry of rural life. Sometimes a photo helps realize the difference.