Harvesting 200,000 tons of dates in Sistan and Baluchestan

Horticulture director of Jihad Agricultural Organization of Sistan and Baluchestan province, stating that more than 4,000 tons of dates have been harvested in Sistan and Baluchestan so far, said: date harvest since mid-June and with early harvest including ketoni, negal and chaos in Nikshahr, Qasr Ghand, Chabahar, Rusk and Sarbaz begin and end in mid-October with the harvest of late varieties, including Halileh and Makili, in Saravan.

Ardeshir Shahraki declared the total area of groves in the province to be more than 50,000 hectares and added: Of this area, 46,000 hectares are fertile.

The director of horticulture of the Jihad Agricultural Organization of Sistan and Baluchestan Province stated: About 15 thousand and 6 tons of different date varieties are harvested annually from the orchards of fertile dates.

Referring to the increase of 50 hectares under date cultivation area last year, he said: This year, increasing the area of date orchards with commercial and marketable cultivars is on the agenda of this management and since the beginning of this year, 567 subsidized date seedlings of Pyaram cultivar have been distributed among farmers. Is.

Shahraki acknowledged: more than 100 types of dates are cultivated in the province, the highest level is allocated to Mazafati and Rabi cultivars.