50% increase in cumin harvest in Khatam

50% increase in cumin harvest in Khatam

Mojtaba Aghaz, director of Jihad Keshavarzi in Khatam city, said: Khatam city, in terms of potential talents in terms of agriculture, is a suitable place for growing strategic and valuable medicinal plants, such as cumin, because cumin in tropical regions has hot and dry climates. It grows well.

Referring to the 50% increase in the area under cumin cultivation in the city, he added: In the last crop year, the area under cumin cultivation was 5 hectares, but this year it has increased by 50 hectares and is being harvested from the city’s fields with a yield of one ton per hectare.

He said: the planting period and harvesting of cumin in Khatam city is 4 days and farmers can harvest a quality crop with proper bedding, irrigation, fertilizer and care and fight against pests and weeds in a timely manner during the growing period and the highest record Harvest this crop on your farm.

The beginning stated: This plant is cultivated in late autumn and with 6 to 3 stages of irrigation and timely care in June, it is harvested from the fields in a traditional way and the product is offered to the consumer market in a traditional or semi-mechanized field.

The director of Jihad Keshavarzi of Khatam city, referring to the promotion and development of the cultivation of medicinal and low-water cumin plants, said: We will increase the cultivated area of ??this crop to 40 hectares in the horizon of 140.