Harvesting of dates from Shadegan groves began

Harvesting of dates from Shadegan groves began

Shadegan Agricultural Jihad announced: The production of date palms in Shadegan city is 46,000 tons.

Engineer Yasin Khajeh, director of Jihad Keshavarzi in Shadegan city, said: Of this amount, 2560 tons are in the form of Khark, 7570 tons are in the form of wet and 35,870 tons are in the form of dates.

The harvest of dates from the groves of Shadegan city has started, he said. This city has 11,280 hectares of palm groves, of which 7,570 hectares are fertile, 1,910 hectares are worn out and 2,800 hectares are seedlings.

Khajeh pointed out: The allocated credit for subsidies and assistance to the farmers of this region has been 340 million Rials. Date clusters at the level of 15 hectares and thinning of the crop at the level of 45 hectares were given to the gardeners of the region.