Alvand slopes prone to cultivating red gold

Alvand slopes prone to cultivating red gold

Hamedan – Mehr News Agency: Hamedan COLD likely to benefit from the lower saffron and saffron in the province consistently has denied dryer saffron and saffron Hamadani to avoid rot your product have to transfer to the provinces Saffron Khorasan that this process of trying to increase performance is affected.

Saffron Znbqyan family and monocots plant is its main source of Asia, including China and Iran.

Saffron plants are perennial, herbaceous, ornamental and short in the early fall or spring flowers and saffron has underground stems called corms but in botanical to reform and farm folk call it saffron bulbs.

Because many medicinal properties as well as the plant is located in the world but what the plant has highlighted that more than 90 percent of the world’s saffron is produced.

Saffron harvest.

Rahimibayat for saffron should be pointed out that climate is subtropical, said plant resistance to cold and in the past there has been cultivated saffron in this province.

Stating that saffron will light soil, said: saffron in the province of September begins and after planting until the end of September and in October every once irrigation needs.

saffron harvest should be done early morning before sunrise.

Deputy Director of Horticulture Agriculture Organization of Hamedan province said saffron bulbs should be planted about 15 to 20 cm of soil cover on it.

He said that if the saffron is harvested in the bud, said after the harvest of flowers sent to the home or workplace and Gelareh are separated.

Two kilograms of saffron per hectare harvested, but from the third year onwards, the situation is better.

Deputy Director of Horticulture Agriculture Organization of Hamedan province said that the third year of saffron can be four to five kilograms per hectare of saffron harvest, he said: Some of the saffron harvest may amount to six to seven kilograms per hectare reach.

Stating that the price of saffron produced four or five kilos of saffron for its farmer-effective, said because farmers learn about the cultivation and harvesting of saffron is low it may be difficult for them.

He said that about 250 tons of saffron are produced in the country, said 175 farmers in the province of saffron activity, but should be more than this figure because most of saffron growers are small land plots .