Destruction of saffron in the city of Rastkhar
Tasnim News Agency, director of Agricultural Jihad, said 45 percent of cultivated saffron cultivation landed this year due to drought and cold.
Mohammad Reza Abbaspour, in a conversation with tasnim reporter, said: “This year, the production of saffron in the city of rashtkhar was sharply reduced, and more than 45% of the production of this product was caused by cold and frosty past, and the cold hard and dry winter of 92 years. Droughts in the county have decreased.
He said that over the years before the drought, more than 18 tons of dry saffron were produced in the city, but with the drought and reduced rainfall, it reduced the production of saffron in the second largest city of saffron production in Khorasan Razavi province.
He added: “There are more than 5,800 hectares of Saffron land in the city of Rashtkhar, which this year farmers have been able to only pay and pay for irrigation of their saffron farms, and actually cultivate saffron in the city by reducing this non-economic production.
The director of Agricultural Jihad in the city of Rashtkhahar noted that this year, about 10.5 tons of dried saffron have been harvested from fields that the price of this golden product should be tripled due to a sharp decline in the level of the province of Khorasan Razavi, but the statistics do not say about this issue. .
He noted the average harvest of dry saffron in Saffron Farms groves per hectare of 3.4 kg dry saffron and said: Farmers are more competent than the proper nutrition of this product to harvest flowers and in the stage of water vagina and late winter to act in case of The occurrence of any plant stress will have more tolerance in the winter.
According to Abbaspour, now Negin saffron is bought and sold on a market for each kilogram between 4 million and 400 million to 500 thousand tooman.
source: tasnimnews /com
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