Harvest of red gold (saffron) on the slopes of the Zagros
red gold harvest has started from the farms of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province.
is the center of production of medicinal plants in the country,
which is famous for its abundant aroma and unique taste of the plants in this region.
According to experts, red gold (saffron) cultivated in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province is also of high quality.
Drought in recent years and the reduction of water resources have caused many problems for farmers in the province,
and the development of saffron cultivation as a plant with very low water requirements is one of the ways out of this problem.
Haj Mostafa Kazemi is a tasteful farmer from Sheikh Shaban village who has been cultivating and extracting red gold (saffron) for several years.
His family members help him in different stages of red gold (saffron) harvest.
Haj Mostafa has great ideas for entrepreneurship in this field by branding his saffron.
The ancient name of the Zagros Mountains was Kor or Kor, which in Sumerian mythology refers to the name of a mountain or mountains.
Kor is also the name of another Akkadian empire that dates back to three thousand years ago.
Before that, in these areas, some people called the name of Zagros Avestan.
But there is another opinion that the word is derived from the name of Indo-European immigrants living in this area known as Sagarti.
The old name of this mountain range in Persian was Patagh, which is also the name of a famous mountain range in Kermanshah.
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