Harvest of the first pistachio crop in East Azarbaijan province in Marand city
Engineer Ali Rokh Afrooz – Director of Jihad Keshavarzi of Marand city – said at the ceremony that by the end of the fourth development plan, the plan to create and develop pistachio orchards in potential lands of this city with an area of more than 500 hectares will be implemented: Of the total area of 500 hectares, the plan to create and develop pistachio orchards in Marand city, about 90 hectares of pistachio orchards in Yamchi and Kashkarai regions have reached the stage of relative exploitation in a seven-year period. In this regard, this year more than 10 tons of pistachios Will be harvested.
He said that the average harvest of pistachios from Marand pistachio orchards is about 700 kg per hectare, he added: from the special credits for the development of orchards to create and develop each hectare of new pistachio orchards in potential lands of the region about 15 million rials cheap bank facilities It grants.
Rokhafrooz added: This management, by attracting the favorable opinion of the officials of the employment and investment working group of the city, tries to approve and grant cheap government credit facilities to the implementers of new projects to create and develop pistachio orchards in the form of establishing and launching start-up farms. Prioritize the area.
The director of Jihad Keshavarzi of Marand city pointed out that if the required water supply of pistachio orchards in the region is up to five thousand cubic meters per year and also full observance of technical and expert principles in different stages of planting and using suitable breeding cultivars, it can be harvested. Pistachio per hectare of orchards increased from 1.2 tons to 3.4 tons.