Intermediaries are short of Gilan hazelnut market
The director of conversion and food industries of Gilan Jihad Agricultural Organization said: Soon, the hazelnut production and processing chain in Gilan will be launched, which will shorten the intermediaries and reduce the cost of the final product.
Qasem Javadzadeh stated that hazelnuts contain 15 to 20% of protein, 40 to 50% of unsaturated fats or useful fats and amounts of calcium, phosphorus and potassium.
He added: While until 10 years ago, gardeners were facing difficulties in selling hazelnuts due to the lack of packaging and processing industries and were forced to sell their produce in bulk, now there are 8 hazelnut packing and processing units in Gilan. With a packaging and processing capacity of 5,500 tons, they have largely solved this problem; Food industry that needs 17,000 tons of hazelnuts as raw materials for packaging and processing; Something equivalent to about a thousand tons more than the crop that is to be harvested in Gilan this year in the fruitful year of hazelnuts.
Javadzadeh continued: In addition to drying, roasting and packing hazelnuts in these eight units, which are used in the preparation of nuts, sweets and chocolate, there are about 1000 tons of processed by-products, including hazelnut butter and granules, which are also worth An increase of five times is produced; Due to the organic nature of Gilan hazelnuts, in addition to Iran, it has a lot of enthusiasm in other countries and its export will bring a significant amount of foreign exchange to the country.
The director of conversion and food industries of Guilan Jihad Agricultural Organization considers the recognition of Guilan hazelnuts with the name and brand of this province as another advantage of the development of conversion industries of this product and said: until 10 years ago, a large part of hazelnuts produced in Guilan for packaging from The production hub of this product was sent to other provinces and was known in the market under the brand of those provinces, but now Gilan hazelnut has made its name famous.
Javadzadeh, stating that in order to further boost production, instructions for creating a production chain, processing and packaging of hazelnuts have been compiled in the Jihad Agricultural Organization, said: Will be launched.