Increasing the popularity of Shirvani farmers to cultivate sunflower seeds

Increasing the popularity of Shirvani farmers to cultivate sunflower seeds

Quoting the public relations of the North Khorasan Jihad Agricultural Organization, Mohammad Naghi Kazemian, director of agriculture affairs of the North Khorasan Jihad Agricultural Organization, said: Shirvani farmers have welcomed sunflower cultivation due to limited water resources and good economic performance of this product.
Referring to the limited water resources in Shirvan, he said: In recent years, the cultivation of this crop by Shirvan farmers had greatly decreased, and in addition to these cases, the increase in the price of nuts has encouraged them to cultivate sunflower.
He said that each kilogram of sunflower seeds is sold in the market for 200,000 rials. Farmers, the area under crop is doubled.
Referring to the harvest of sunflower from early August, Kazemian added: Last year, this crop was planted on 95 hectares of the city, which produced 86 tons of sunflower seeds, and this year, on 200 hectares, 300 tons of this crop is expected to be harvested. To be produced.
The director of agriculture affairs of North Khorasan Jihad Agricultural Organization mentioned the average production yield of this crop in Shirvan as 1.5 tons per hectare and said: the most important problems of previous years were bird damage to this crop, but this year with the figures distributed, bird damage It will be much less.
Kazemian, stating that the amount of modified seeds for sunflower per hectare is 5 kg, added: The most important factors in the cultivation of this crop are autumn plowing and irrigation, feeding potash and improved seeds.
It is worth mentioning that Shirvan city has 105,000 hectares of agricultural and horticultural fields and 12,000 agricultural operators.