Saffron harvest 20 percent reduction in cold regions of Khorasan Razavi

Saffron harvest 20 percent reduction in cold regions of Khorasan Razavi

Agricultural Manager Agriculture Organization of Khorasan Razavi Saffron harvest of 15 to 20 percent reduction in cold regions province.

MR Sacred in an interview with Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA), Khorasan region, said the saffron harvest in cold regions and in the province is still ongoing but according to field visits in the region and a sharp drop in temperatures in recent weeks, The harvest is somewhat reduced.

He added that producing organs of flowers at low temperatures and long-term effects as well as the air temperature to minus 7 degrees with extreme cold and snow and hail and frost the top layer of soil, leaving flowers is difficult.

Agricultural Manager Agriculture Organization of Khorasan Razavi said Bardaskan cities, Khalilabad, Kashmar, Yes and Mhvlat including the harvesting of tropical flowers they could not come to an end and announced their total withdrawal.

He pointed out that the harvest of flowers in the tropical province has just started and has not yet reached its peak, so the exact number of impressions and increase or decrease up to half of November, coinciding with the end of harvest time the plant to be announced.

Sacred noted: Torbat, Zaveh, Nishapur, sycamore, Mashhad and Freeman cold regions of the saffron fields they have fallen under the influence of cold air.

He said some farmers who irrigate their fields in time had begun earlier, picking flowers in the earlier time, so the occurrence of air temperatures in cold regions were in trouble and damage.