Doubling the area of sesame cultivation in Sabzevar
The director of Sabzevar agricultural jihad said: 440 tons of sesame has been harvested in this city this year.
Engineer Mohammad Hosseini Abadi added: 440 tons of sesame has been harvested from the area of 400 hectares of cultivated lands of this crop with an average yield of 1100 kg per hectare.
Referring to the doubling of the area under cultivation of this crop compared to last year, he said that this increase is related to the need for low water sesame, climatic conditions and the relatively reasonable price of this crop this year.
The director of Sabzevar Agricultural Jihad, while referring to the implementation of the ideal plan of water sesame in 25 hectares in Mazinan area of the city, said that the purpose of this plan was to apply the correct planting methods and harvest to introduce suitable cultivars and increase crop production.