Saffron cultivation is not developed in North Khorasan
The director of horticulture of the North Khorasan Jihad Agricultural Organization said:
We have no desire to increase the area under saffron cultivation.
Mohammad Ali Sharikian, pointing out that this province has a lot of potential in saffron production, added:
We are looking to cultivate strategic crops such as wheat, barley and sugar beet,
and if good and talented lands of the province are allocated to saffron cultivation
in the production of strategic crops We will have a problem.
He announced the area of saffron cultivation in the province as 633 hectares and continued:
of this amount, 540 hectares are fertile and 93 hectares are infertile.
The average production of saffron per hectare of farms
in the province is 4.8 kg, which is expected to grow by 10% this year.
He announced the harvest time of this product in the province in October and noted:
the amount of saffron production last year was three tons, which will grow by 10% this year.
The official clarified:
Last year, saffron growers in the province sold saffron worth 270 million rials.
North Khorasan is bordered by Turkmenistan to the north,
Khorasan Razavi province to the east and south,
Semnan to the southwest and Golestan province to the west.
Its area is 28,434 square kilometers
and it is in the 15th place in terms of area compared to other provinces of the country.
According to the census conducted in 1395,
the population of this province was equal to 959,070 people.
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