Hashemi Gilan rice cultivar is refined
Hashemi Gilan rice cultivar and other local rice cultivars are refined.
An important part of Gilan’s economy is based on agriculture, animal husbandry, fishing and beekeeping and silkworms. Cultivation and production of rice is one of the most important agricultural products in the province, which also has a very good taste.
Rabino, an English Orientalist, wrote in 1911: Gilan rice is better than Mazandaran and Astarabad, and Churchill and Abbott said that in the mid-nineteenth century Gilan had to import from Mazandaran to meet its local needs. There were two main reasons for this: first, the landowners of Gilan, in response to the growing need of European markets, gave priority to noghandari, and it was only in 1860 that farmers turned to rice due to the destruction of silkworms by Pebrin; Secondly, Gilan was isolated from the rest of the country until the beginning of the twentieth century and the construction of the Rasht-Qazvin road, which connected it to the Iranian plateau. Like many other activities, rice production in Gilan flourished due to the needs of the Russian market. In 1892, Gilan exported 8,899,600 rice Qurans to Russia.
Considering the population of Iran, at present the country’s need for rice is more than the amount of production, and for several years, various plans have been developed for the self-sufficiency of the country’s rice.
گGilan rice is a strong competitor for the best rice in the world
گGilan rice has the ability to compete with the best rice in the world due to its good quality and taste and be one of the high value-added export products. Therefore, it is necessary to take the necessary measures to eliminate the shortcomings of this product, however, and to take basic measures in this regard. One of the most important problems is the lack of uniformity in rice grains.
Currently, the most cultivated rice in Gilan is Hashemi.
And according to the public relations of the Iranian Rice Research Institute, since local Iranian rice is one of the valuable genetic resources of Iran, collecting, preserving and reviving these cultivars in the Iranian national collection is essential to preserve the national genetic resources and germplasm of rice.
Gilan white rice should be uniform
According to the report, one of the biggest problems in the country in white rice production is the imperfection of white rice and its non-uniformity.
A large part of this impurity is due to the use of self-consuming seeds by farmers, so with the aim of purifying and standardizing white rice and promoting the use of certified (labeled) seeds instead of self-consuming seeds, for the first time in the country Rice Research Institute The country has started refining and producing nucleus seeds and the basis of local cultivars.
Purification of the production of other local rice cultivars is also on the agenda of this institute.
According to the plans made by the Deputy Minister of Agriculture of the Ministry of Jihad Agriculture, it has been decided to develop the production of seeds of different cultivars in order to reduce the use of self-consuming seeds and encourage farmers to use certified and labeled seeds.