Harvesting of saffron started from 520 hectares in Estahban Fars
The director of Estahban Fars Agricultural Jihad announced: Saffron harvest in this city starts from 520 hectares.
Ahmad Ranjbar added:
It is expected that more than 2600 kg of dry saffron will be harvested from this amount.
He continued:
Estahban fars ranks first in Fars province in terms of size and number of saffron farms and second in the country.
Ranjbar said:
In addition to the domestic market, saffron is exported to European countries, the Persian Gulf and India.
saffron is more fragrant in terms of smell and taste than saffron cultivated in Iran due to the type of soil and altitude above sea level and is valuable for this product from standard and different cultivars.
Ranjbar said: the saffron harvest, which has recently started,
has been going on for about a month (end of December). Estahban is 160 km east of Shiraz.
Estahban is one of the cities of Fars province. The center of this city is Estahban city. According to the 2016 census, the population of this city was 68,850. Estahban became a city in 1337.
This city is one of the eastern lands of Fars province, which is limited from the north to Neyriz, from the south to Tudaj (Tudeh) mountains,
from the west to Roniz plain, from the east to Darab and Edge mountains with a population of 686789 people.
In fact, this is a plain region with an altitude of 1767 meters above sea level and an area of 2652 square kilometers. The orbit of this city is 29 degrees and 8 minutes north latitude and 54 degrees and 3 minutes east longitude.
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