Estahban dried figs are in unique places
Mehrzad Kherad stated: Although countries such as Turkey, Egypt, Spain, Portugal also have a significant area under cultivation and production, but the product of Iranian dried figs, especially Estahban, is unique in terms of quality and is unique in the world.
He continued: The production of dried figs in Fars in normal years is 37 thousand tons and in recent years due to successive droughts is about 14 to 16 thousand tons and Estahban with a cultivated area of about 22 thousand hectares and production of dried figs 17 thousand tons in Normal years and six to eight thousand tons in recent years, is the first producer of dried figs in Iran.
Kherad stated that there are more than 2.2 million fig trees in this city, adding: Most of the people of this city are directly and indirectly engaged in activities such as maintaining dryland fig orchards and side activities.
In another part of his speech, the head of the Fars Agricultural Jihad Organization pointed out that the fig product of this province is organic and said: in Estahban, Neyriz and other areas of the province, no chemical fertilizers or toxins are used, which means that this is organic. They are fig orchards and so far for 400 hectares of these fig orchards, the Dutch company Control Unin has issued an organic certificate and the follow-up for obtaining a certificate for the rest continues.
Kherad added: Currently, Fars has 46,000 hectares of fig trees, of which 22,000 hectares are in Estahban, 8,000 hectares in Neyriz, Darab, 4,800 hectares, Jahrom, 3,800 hectares, Kazerun, 3,200 hectares, Firoozabad, 1,000. And 500 hectares and one thousand hectares are located in Shiraz and the rest in other cities.
Kherad stressed the need for a serious transformation in conversion and ancillary industries for this product and said: creating fig conversion and complementary industries in Estahban region can provide valuable figs of this city with more added value at the international and national level and In addition to reducing processing and transportation costs, it also prevents the growth of product waste.
He added: Since figs are one of the unique export items of the province, the development of packaging units and its processing is one of the priorities of the Jihad-e-Agriculture Organization, which in order to achieve this goal and further develop the export of ozone replacement plan instead of methyl Bromide is included in the management plans of the agricultural industry, which has many economic benefits for the units, and due to the ban on the use of Mittel Bromide until 2012, it will also solve the problems related to the export of this product.