Harvesting of dates from Tabas groves began

Harvesting of dates from Tabas groves began

Engineer Asadi, director of Jihad Keshavarzi in Tabas, while announcing this news, said: the area under date palm cultivation in this city is 1,624 hectares, which is the first in terms of area under cultivation of horticultural products in the city.

He added: with the measures taken in recent years, one thousand and 24 hectares of date palms in the city have been improved, of which about 300 hectares have been newly exploited and from this level it is predicted that about 850 tons of dates from Kabkab, Zahedi, Mazafati and Kermani cultivars. Be harvested.

The director of Tabas Agricultural Jihad said: In the current crop year, 14,000 date palms from Zahedi cultivar and 8,170 tissue culture seedlings from Zahedi, Pyaram and Barhi cultivars have been distributed from palm growers from the credits of Touba plan and national plan for removing and replacing date palms. Is.
Also, 30 hectares of worn and low-yield date palms have been removed and replaced with high-yield and export cultivars.