Cultivation of more than 90% of Mazandaran sesame in Behshahr

Cultivation of more than 90% of Mazandaran sesame in Behshahr

‌The director of Behshahr agricultural jihad announced the cultivation of more than 90% of Mazandaran sesame oil seeds in Behshahr.
Quoting the public relations of Mazandaran Agricultural Jihad Organization, Gholamreza Ghanbari stated: In the current crop year, with a 65% increase in the area under sesame oil cultivation in Behshahr city, compared to last year, 210 hectares of agricultural lands in this city are dedicated to sesame cultivation. Has found.

He further pointed out that the cultivation of 40% of sesame in this city in the current crop year has been done mechanized and added: more than 95% of the area under sesame cultivation in Behshahr city has been summer and irrigated and most of it has been after rapeseed and wheat harvest. .

Ghanbari declared Naz single-branched cultivar as a cultivar of the region, which has been stable so far.

He stated that Behshahr city has more than 90% of the area under sesame cultivation in Mazandaran province, he specified: During the last few years, we have witnessed an increasing trend in the cultivation of this product in Behshahr city.