Lorestan has a good climate for saffron cultivation
Maryam Dolphani, one of the Lorestan saffron in Iran, says saffron is a product that needs little water, so Lorestan is a good climate for this crop.
He pointed out that the low crop area of this product was due to lack of sufficient information to farmers and the cultivation of this product in the province has not been institutionalized, said: Despite the high quality of saffron in terms of essential oil, cultivating this product in Lorestan Therefore, they must be sponsored to encourage farmers to develop saffron cultivation in the province.
Dolphani stated: “Saffron cultivation can bring good income for rural women.
Saffron harvesting season is usually autumn and in the rest of the seasons it is a dream, this plant needs to be watered once or twice in the early autumn, and it does not require irrigation with the onset of rain, while harvesting is not synchronous with other agricultural products, and during the unemployment season farmers This is the reason why the labor force is needed. This product is cultivated in low yielding land, and in addition, due to the fact that there is not much labor during planting and harvest for farmers and workers, the labor force for planting and harvesting it can be members of the farmers’ families of the area, most of Lorestan’s cities have a large capacity for Planting saffron.
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