Anticipated 35 percent decline in saffron production in Torbat Heydarieh
Director of Agriculture Torbat said saffron production this year decreased by 35 to 40 percent compared to normal conditions will be.
Saadat Ali Nia in an interview with Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA), Razavi Khorasan region, emphasized: Under normal conditions of 5.5 to 6 kg per hectare farms harvest that year due to drought and lack of water, compared to 3 kg per hectare decreased.
He added that due to lack of water and drought this year, about 250 acres of city farms are not irrigated city in time to harvest for farmers were provided.
Ali Nia, droughts and reduction of water resources as the most important obstacles to the development of farms and employment of citizens, he explained, with a sharp drop in water resources, particularly in crop fields and springs are more than 1750 hectares of farmland, which will supply the city with tank and many applicants because of lack of funds, watering is not done at the right time.
He pointed out that the work of the saffron harvest 7600 hectares of farmland Torbat started and is expected to be harvested about 32 tons of saffron farms city.
Director of Agriculture Torbat, agriculture is one of the most important sources of employment Torbat saffron added 16 thousand people directly engaged in the planting and harvesting of saffron and saffron in the world to have a monopoly on the production of high quality product.
Ali Nia said the cause of saffron at 50 hectares of land this year, the city with the aim of increasing production per hectare was resistance in agriculture. The ideal design of saffron farms running. In the fields of reconstruction, screening onions and onions cultivated with specific characteristics.
He said that due to successive droughts and water shortage problem in the region, farmers will have to increase the quality of saffron, as well as reduce manufacturing costs, reduce time to productivity of work.
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