Picking Saffron from Khorasan Razavi
Hashem Naqibi added that the cultivation level of saffron in Khorasan Razavi has increased by more than 5,000 hectares compared to last year’s 69,500 hectares.
He announced the number of saffron cultivators in Khorasan Razavi 132 thousand and said: 85 percent of the world’s saffron produced in the province is cultivated and harvested.
Director of Horticulture of Khorasan Razavi Jihad Agriculture Organization said: The current average harvest of saffron per hectare in this province is four kilograms.
He has the highest level of saffron cultivation in Khorasan Razavi with an area of 11,000 farms in the city of Zawah and then Torbat Heydarieh with 9,000 hectares and a farm with six thousand hectares of land saffron.
Najibi said: The lowest cultivations of this product belong to the cities of Torghabeh Shandiz, Kalat and Sarakhs, with the area of saffron cultivated lands less than 20 hectares.
He added that harvesting of saffron will continue until late November.
source: yjc /ir
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