Anticipated 35 percent decline in saffron production in Torbat Heydarieh

Director of Agriculture Torbat said saffron production this year decreased by 35 to 40 percent will be normal.

Ali nia happiness in an interview with Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA), Razavi Khorasan region, said under normal circumstances from 5.5 to 6 kg per hectare saffron fields that this year’s harvest due to drought and lack of water, the amount to 3 kg per hectare decreased.

He said the city due to lack of water and drought this year, about 250 hectares of saffron fields are not irrigated city in time and may not harvest for farmers.

Ali nia , droughts and reduction of water resources as the most important obstacles to the development and employment of citizens saffron fields, he explained, with a sharp drop in water resources and especially aqueducts and fountains in the current crop year, over 1,750 hectares of farmland are city with a tanker of water supply for Given the volume of applicants, irrigation is not done at the right time.

He pointed out that the work of the saffron harvest 7600 hectares of farmland Torbat started and is expected to be harvested about 32 tons of saffron farms city.

Director of Agriculture Torbat, saffron is one of the most important sources of job creation and added Torbat 16 thousand people directly engaged in the planting and harvesting saffron and saffron in the world to have a monopoly on the production of high quality product.

Ali nia said the cause of saffron at 50 hectares of the city’s plan to increase production per hectare was resistance in agriculture. Plan Farms saffron ideal comprehensive plan is executed. In the fields of design, construction, screening onions and onions grown with special characteristics.

He said that due to successive droughts and water shortage problem in the region, farmers will have to increase their saffron quality and reduce production costs to reduce the efficiency of their action.