Appropriation “UNIDO” to the Iranian saffron
Agricultural Manager Agriculture Organization of Khorasan Razavi allocation of two million dollars the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) to improve the stability of the country’s saffron.
According to the Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA) – Khorasan region, Mohammad Reza holy month of November today at a press conference Head of Agricultural Jihad Organization of the press announcement said, according to the importance of saffron in the world, saffron industry value chain development project organized by UNIDO in cooperation with the Agricultural Bank of Iran was launched late last year.
He selected pilot cities and villages as the first step in the program named executive said Torbat Heydarieh cities, Zaveh, Kashmar, Roshtkhar, Khalilabad, Bardaskan, Bajestan, Yes, Sabzevar, Nishapur, Bakharz, Mhvlat in Khorasan and Ferdows , Cain and chorus in South Khorasan province for networking activities and teaching farmers to increase the efficiency and sustainability of production by observers were selected.
Sacred continued selection and training of observers and processing saffron health and healthy and organic products is the second and third stages of the program.
He continued in the third round to set up 20 workshops hygienic processing saffron in pilot villages with equipping the workshops with industrial drying machine is intended to produce a healthy product in healthy mentored and supervised by observers will saffron.
Agricultural Manager Agriculture Organization of the implementation of the ideal fields of saffron in the province and said: this plan in the years 88, 89 and 90, respectively, at 40, 100 and 75 hectares of saffron in the province’s cities and regions.
He said the plan is based on strict observance of the technical guidelines, including time and suitable planting season, and the top eight grams of standard bulbs, planting density, technical care and proper nutrition course and results of the project implying an increase of three times the average yield per hectare than conventional farms.
Sacred noted that for the first time in 92 years of the subsidies and agricultural inputs as special support in the fields of saffron in the province was awarded USD 200 million subsidy that the saffron-rich regions of the province to implement a program of spraying (feeding) struggle mechanical weed distribution and absorption is saffron fields.
He said doing so would increase production and improve the quality and quantity of the product as well as the impact on the views and reports based on the results of the field has been very successful.
Expert in charge of Agriculture Khorasan Razavi Saffron Saffron export growth of 36 percent this year, and said: This is due to the removal of export duties saffron.
Economic report Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA) – Khorasan region, Ramin nominal fifth day of November in the press conference Head of Agricultural Jihad Organization of Khorasan Razavi, told reporters that more than five tons of saffron annually in the UAE, and then the highest our exports to countries such as Spain and Japan and 50 other countries.
He pointed out the importance of this product in nutritional properties of saffron and said if the Iranians take in one gram of saffron, saffron is required within 80 tons.
He pointed to the limited cultivation of saffron in 22 provinces, said 77 percent of the land of Khorasan Razavi Saffron country, 19 percent of South Khorasan provincial and only four percent in the other.
Nominal annual production of 330 tons of saffron in the world with reference to said 310 tons of this amount is related to the country of which 243 tons in Khorasan Razavi also the best quality production.
Expert in charge of the province expects to export more than 160 tons of saffron crocus Agriculture this year and said that based on demand forecasts more than 500 tons of saffron in the world.
He said 65 percent of employment in harvesting saffron and Prkndn this product is that the arrival of mechanization of this sector jobs will be lost this amount.
A name referring to the launch of saffron dryer to accelerate the drying process, saffron production in the province, said the machine with drying capacity of 10 kg per hour in the center of the saffron crocus in the Zaveh, Torbat and the highest Saffron Kashmar possess, is activated.
Nominal said that the devices in the third stage of partnership with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization as the hygienic processing and production of healthy and organic products has continued to improve saffron province UNIDO credit for four years of two million dollars and the possibility of increasing this amount in the event of the conclusion of the project there.
He said: Saffron 10% of the province’s agricultural and horticultural products and great value product, employment and high performance in the water.
Khorasan Razavi Saffron exports 85 percent to 53 countries
Deputy Agriculture Organization of Khorasan Razavi plant production of saffron exports 80 to 85 percent of the province’s 53 countries.
According to the Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA) – Khorasan region, the fifth day of November in the press conference President Mahmoud Sareban Agriculture Organization of the said product cost and competitiveness of the most important characteristics of this product to help manufacturers in contrast to competitors emerging global markets such as China and Afghanistan will soon become saffron stand.
He desert climates and regions adapt to dehydration due to high water use efficiency, high employment and high economic value and exchange technology appropriate for the country to be named as an important feature of saffron.
Sarban said Khorasan Razavi 6500 hectare acreage and production of 243 tons, ranking first in the country and the world dedicated to the production of saffron, but unfortunately the last two decades, with an increase in acreage of about 18 hectares in 70 to 54 ha, the average production per unit area of about six kilograms per hectare to 3.5 kg per hectare declined.
The average reduction in area under cultivation and production of saffron in the province
He continued: traditional cultivation acreage has risen sharply due to drought and frost, but average production dropped to about 3.5 kg per hectare reached.
Plant Production Assistant Agriculture Organization Region noted that according to recent droughts and reduction of water resources in the strategy of our farmers to reduce cultivation and increase the current average production of 3.5 kg to 10 kg per hectare is eight, this increase in production per unit the reduction of the production cost of farmers.
He said that to increase the yield per hectare should be alternative methods and modern methods of traditional culture and new scientific findings and research in the fields of farmers run.
Sareban the implementation of the proliferation of saffron bulbs to farmers as one of the organization’s efforts to improve the quality and quantity of saffron in the province.
He said that one of the most important needs of the ideal fields of onions saffron standard and certified by the weight of eight grams and the other bulbs available in the market are usually poor and sub-standard bulbs for planting in this kind of farms, for the first time in years 89 and 90 to assist in the proliferation of farms 16 hectares of saffron bulbs were on the surface.
He said the results of the farm was very successful and within a year was 2.5 times planting onions, onions standard ideal for planting crops were produced.
This product meets the quality parameters of saffron received identification code.
He continued: This code indicates the location of the plant, the name of the farmer, farm name, time and date of production.
Sarban said last year the construction of the ideal saffron fields, harvesting and processing and improve the quality of health care in the design of saffron in the city was 14, the 36 processing plants in 14 city was formed and equipped.
He Bajestan cities, Bardaskan, Bakhzr, Trbtjam, Torbat Heydarieh, KHAF, Roshtkhar, Zaveh, Sabzevar, Kashmar, Yes, Mhvlat, Nishapur and Mashhad as saffron counties that are equipped workshop and said: about 3 tons Saffron health and healthy product is produced in these workshops.
Camel driver, referring also to consider the proposed increase in the province’s self-sufficiency for 8 major product programs and the provision of seed, chemical fertilizer, mechanization development, development of insurance services and facilities to the farmers, including programs of the project.
He added that 18 500 soil fertilizer in the province was assessed on the basis of these studies requires 235 tons of nitrogen fertilizer, 80 tons and 70 tons of phosphorus potassium fertilizers in the province felt.
73 percent of agricultural soils with iron deficiency
Deputy Agriculture Organization of continued plant production: 75 percent of the land in need of phosphorus, 73 percent suffer from iron deficiency, 75.8% and 41% deficient soils deficient in zinc manganese.
He said the great food soils of an average four percent, the best soil in Quchan and Torbat 7 percent higher and its worst KHAF 0.2 percent higher.
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