Planting and harvesting 100 hectares of cumin in Abhar
The head of Abhar Jihad-e-Agriculture announced the planting and harvesting of 100 hectares of cumin in this city.
Iran is the main habitat of many valuable medicinal species, these species produce relatively high effective substances in natural conditions or light rainfall, which these secondary metabolites can be increased by their basic cultivation and through this, in addition to domestic consumption, its export. Increase.
Drought is one of the most important factors limiting plant growth worldwide and the most common environmental stress that has limited the production of approximately 25% of the world’s land. Compared to many other plants, drought-tolerant medicinal plants can produce significant yields that are cost-effective in terms of income and employment.
Medicinal plants will be a healthy product due to the lack or limited use of various chemical fertilizers and toxins. Among these valuable plants, we can mention cumin.
Cumin is a plant that originally originated in the highlands of Egypt and the Nile coast, but today grows semi-wild in a large area of ??the Mediterranean, Saudi Arabia, Iran and other areas or grows in these areas, but climate change, a gradual increase in temperature in Korea Land and water shortage have gradually caused drought tolerant crops to find a special place in the cultivation pattern of Zanjan province.
Cumin is one of the products that is highly resistant to drought, cold and soil salinity. Cumin is one of the products whose name we may hear a little in the margins of agricultural products, but this product is also grown in Abhar.
In this regard, the head of Abhar Jihad-e-Agriculture says: In the crop year of 2009 in Abhar city, more than 100 hectares of rainfed agricultural lands have been allocated for cumin cultivation.
Majid Qazvinian adds: This plant is able to produce in arid and semi-arid regions, especially in areas where the difference between day and night temperatures is high and the annual rainfall is less than 150 mm.
He goes on to say that cumin tolerance to drought is very high: for this reason, its cultivation is often dry.
The cumin reminds: Cumin has many medicinal properties, including digestive, diaphoretic, anticonvulsant, relieves nausea and stomach pain, and is also useful in the treatment of rickets.
He points out that in order to prepare the seedbed, the soil is usually plowed semi-deeply, then the discs are plowed, then the sowing is done in the form of a sprayer or rower, and after sowing the sprayer, he says: The amount of seeds used using a rower is 8 to 10. Kg and in the spray method is 10 to 15 kg.
Qazvinian states: The time of sowing seeds in Abhar city is the second half of March after the end of winter cold. Seed sowing depth is one to 2 cm and in row planting, the best distance between rows and plants is 40 cm.
The head of Jihad-e-Keshavarzi of Abhar city, pointing out that the cumin harvest starts from the beginning of June and continues until about the end of June, says: The harvest is 100% traditional and done by hand. It has a little moisture, it should be collected. After harvesting, the crop is placed in the sun to dry completely, and then the cumin seeds are separated from the stems by crushing the plants by workers or threshers, and by sieving the seeds are separated from other wastes.
He continues by stating that the amount of straw is about one to 1.5 times that of grain: considering the average yield of 300 kg per hectare, it is predicted that more than 30 tons of cumin will be produced in Abhar city this year, all 100 hectares in the city will be mechanized. Cultivated with a fine-grained row and the seed rate was 10 kg per hectare.