The cold damaged 200 hectares of saffron orchards in North Khorasan
The Secretary of the Agricultural Risk Headquarters of the North Khorasan Jihad Agricultural Organization said: the autumn cold damaged about 200 hectares of saffron farms in the province.
Abdolhossein Namvar, pointing out that the area under cultivation of this crop in this province is 1238 hectares, added: At the beginning of December of this year, the air temperature in some areas of this province reached minus 13 degrees Celsius, which caused damage to farmers who are still They had not collected their product.
He said that currently the initial estimate of the damage to saffron farms has been done and the final result has not been announced yet, adding: the most frost damage to the province’s fertile saffron farms in this harvest season in the cities of Esfarayen, Jajarm and Shirvan.
Namvar in response to the question of how much damage the recent cold has caused to the gardens and farms of the province in general? He stated: Numbers and figures were announced last week, but after holding meetings, we came to the conclusion that we should have other revisions regarding the damage assessment.
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