Harvesting dates has the first place in Tabas garden products

The director of Jihad Keshavarzi of Tabas city announced the beginning of date harvesting in the city and said: Dates have taken the first place in the garden products of Tabas city.
Mahmoud Asadi stated: The area under date palm cultivation in Tabas city is 1307 hectares, which is the first place in terms of area under horticulture in Tabas city.
He said: According to the measures taken in recent years, especially the distribution of cuttings and seedlings of high quality and commercial cultivars, about 779 hectares of date palms, equivalent to 60%, have been improved, of which about 369 hectares are fertile and newly exploited and are expected to Palms of the city should be harvested more than 1000 tons of dates.
Asadi said that the most important measures taken in the current crop year are the implementation of plans to remove and replace worn and low-yield date palms at the level of 51.110 hectares, removal and pruning of dried date palms due to cold and frost in 2007, as well as the distribution of 27,500 stubble and Date tissue seedlings among gardeners, with a total credit of approximately 440 million tomans.
He announced the number of date farmers in this city as 1400 people.

