Production of more than 237,000 tons of onions in East Azerbaijan

Production of more than 237,000 tons of onions in East Azerbaijan

The director of agriculture of East Azerbaijan Jihad-e-Agriculture Organization, referring to the production forecast of 237 thousand tons of onions in the current crop year, said: This amount of crop is obtained from 5,519 hectares of lands under onions cultivation in the province and will be offered to provincial and national consumer markets. .

Quoting the public relations of the Jihad Agricultural Organization of the province, Saeed Soleimani, referring to the fact that the lands under onions cultivation in the province have decreased by 446 hectares compared to the last crop year, said: This is based on improving the cultivation pattern, saving It has been done in water consumption and in order to realize the rights of producers and prevent wastage of capital in the agricultural sector.

He pointed out that based on the measures devised by interacting more with the trade unions of producers of this product in the province, efforts will be based on this to eliminate intermediaries from the distribution of agricultural products to pave the way to regulate the consumer market.

Soleimani further announced the amount of summer onions produced in the province as 1,080 tons and said: the rest of this crop will be harvested in the fall under the cultivated lands of East Azerbaijan.

The director of agriculture of East Azerbaijan Jihad-e-Agriculture Organization announced the development of efficient and up-to-date methods in onions cultivation in the province and added: Mechanized onions using four-row linear work on 11 hectares of agricultural lands in Malekan city is one of the cases that this management tries to use the necessary production resources by transferring the necessary production information by experts, in Institutionalize the agricultural sector of the province and continue its movement towards the realization of sustainable development in the sector.