Picking Saffron from Kashmar
Sayed Abulqasem Mousavi, speaking with the correspondent of the provincial youth club of young journalists from Mashhad, said that the land is expected to be harvested more than 5 kilograms per hectare. The beginning of harvesting of saffron flowers started because of the coldness of Kohsharkh area since late October. And now it’s your last days.
Referring to the fact that harvesting of saffron from 1800 hectares in the fields of the city has ended, he said: 4 kg of hectare has been harvested.
The agricultural director of Kashmarzood: Saffron harvesting starts from the level of 4700 hectares of land in the central part of the city and will continue until the end of December this year.
According to Mousavi, production performance in the Kohshark and Central regions is different from each other, and predicted that this year 6500 hectares of saffron land in Kashmar would be harvested in excess of 5 tons of good quality saffron.
He stated that the cultivation of saffron, in accordance with the policies of the Jihad-e-Agriculture Organization in order to develop low-water crops, with a high economic justification, has been over the years since the work of this city and recommended the cultivation of ideal plantations and the holding of training classes and processing workshops Sanitary Saffron is intended to increase the quality of the product and its performance per unit area.
source: yjc /ir
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