Winter onion harvest in southern Sistan and Baluchestan

Winter onion harvest in southern Sistan and Baluchestan

The director of Jihad-e-Keshavarzi of Rask city said: this year, about three thousand hectares of farms in this city have been allocated for off-season onion cultivation.

This year, about 3,000 hectares of the city’s farms have been set aside for off-season onion cultivation, said the Norwegian director of Jihad-e-Agriculture in the city of Rusk.

Norway added: more than 98% of onions in this city are cultivated as seedlings, the treasury of which will start from the beginning of August and the work of transplanting seedlings will start from mid-September and will continue until the end of October.

He said: Rusk city onion is one of the local cultivars and has a high quality that in addition to marketability, its long-term storage capacity is also high.

Onion harvest in this city, which begins in late January and continues until early May.

For the first time, about 120 hectares of these lands have been cultivated under pressure and using tape irrigation, which in addition to saving water consumption, its production yield per unit area has more than tripled, said the Norwegian director of Rusk Agricultural Jihad. Finds.