Harvest Season

Harvesting watermelon from Hasht Bandi agricultural farms

BANDAR ABBAS, Dec. 09(MNA) – Concurrent with the arrival of Yalda Night, watermelon farmers in Hasht Bandi region in Hormozgan province send harvested crop to major cities including Tehran, Isfahan, Tabriz, Mashhad and Fars.

By: Mehran Riazi

Kiwi harvest in N Iran

TEHRAN, Nov. 04 (MNA) – Every year in mid-autumn, kiwi harvest begins in the gardens of the northern provinces of Iran. The kiwi fruit is harvested on a 520-hectare garden in Tonekabon County, Mazandaran Province.

By: Mehdi Bakhshi

Pomegranate harvest in Qom

QOM, Nov. 02 (MNA) – Gardeners of Qom city in central of Iran have started harvesting pomegranates as fall arrives.

By: Maryam Davarnia

Saffron harvest in North Khorasan Prov.

BOJNORD, Oct. 26 (MNA) – The harvest season for saffron, known as 'red gold', has kicked off in North Khorasan province. This province is one of the hubs for producing the most expensive spice in the world.

By: Mahsa Safari

Saffron harvest in Golestan prov.

VAMENAN, Oct. 24 (MNA) – Vamenan village in Golestan, the northeastern province of Iran is one of the hubs for producing the best saffron in Iran. Many farmers are busy with harvesting saffron flowers at this time of the year.

By: Seyyed Khalil Mousavi

Harvesting sugarcane in Khuzestan prov.

AHVAZ, Oct. 21 (MNA) – Harvesting of sugarcane has started on fields in Khuzestan province and it is predicted that 5.5 million tons of sugarcane will be harvested from farms of this southern province.

Harvest of tobacco in Kordestan province

TEHRAN, Oct. 13 (MNA) – The harvesting of tobacco leaves has begun in the western province of Kordestan. The province is a suitable place for tobacco cultivation in Iran due to its climatic and fertile soil.

By: Mohammad Nesaei

Traditional rice harvest in Golestan prov.

GORGAN, Oct. 05 (MNA) – This year, rice was cultivated on 85,000 ha farms of Golestan province. This northern province is the 3rd largest producer of rice in the country.

By: Farhad Safari

Harvesting grapes in Qazvin

TEHRAN, Sep. 17 (MNA) – The northwestern province of Qazvin is one of the cultivated regions of Iran. Grapes are one of the main agricultural products of the region.

By: Maryam Davarnia

Harvesting pistachio from gardens in Jajaram

JAJARM, Sep. 14 (MNA) – Jajarm city in North Khorasan province is one of the highly potential hubs for planting and farming pistachios.

By: Iman Hamikhah

Harvesting grapes in Malayer

MALAYER, Sep. 13 (MNA) – Every year in midst September, farmers in Malayer county, Hamedan Province, begin harvesting grapes and drying them up into raisins.

By: Farhad Safari

Cranberry harvest in Iran's Hire village

ALAMUT, Sep. 09 (MNA) – Hire village in West Alamut District in Qazvin Province is the Iran's largest cranberry producer. Harvest season of cranberry begins late August and goes through September.

By: Pouya Bazargard

Peanut fields in N Iran

ASTANEH ASHRAFIEH, Sep. 06 (MNA) – Peanut is the most important agricultural product of Astaneh Ashrafieh county in Gilan province. It is cultivated on more than 2,000 hectares of land, which accounts for 80% of Iran's peanut output.

By: Rahbar Emamdadi

Lemon harvest in S Iran

BANDAR ABBAS, Aug. 20 (MNA) – Farmers of Hormozgan province, southern Iran, have cultivated lemon in some 10,000 ha of land. Some 100,000 tons of lemon have been harvested so far across the province.

By: Iman Hamikhah

Potato harvest in Hamedan province

HAMEDAN, Aug. 14 (MNA) – Farmers of Hamedan province, west Iran, cultivate potato in some 22 to 24 thousand hectares of farms annually.

By: Rahbar Emdadi

Fruits harvest in South of Iran

TEHRAN, Aug. 04 (MNA) – Harvest season of various kinds of fruits have started in different parts of Iran. Gardeners have begun harvesting walnut, plum, apricot, grape, fig in Homag-e Bala village in Bandar Abbas County, Hormozgan Province.

By: Behnam Yousefi

Peach harvest in central Iran

TEHRAN, Jul. 19 (MNA) – Harvest season of peach and nectarine begins July and goes through September depending on the variety and location. Gardeners have started harvesting peach and nectarine in Khondab County in Markazi province, central Iran.

By: Abouzar Bigharaz

Harvesting cantaloupe on fields in Gerash, Fars province

SHIRAZ, Jun. 24 (MNA) – “Cantaloupe” is cultivated in early Iranian month of Esfand [Feb. – March] in tropical regions, Gerash county, south of Fars province and is harvested in Iranian month of Khordad [June].

By: Behnam Yousefi

Harvesting cherry, sour cherry trees in Markazi Prov.

KHONDAB, Jun. 20 (MNA) – Harvest season of cherry and sour cherry begins late June and goes through September depending on the variety and location. Gardeners have started harvesting cherry and sour cherry in Khondab County, Markazi Province, Iran.

By: Masoumeh Jafari

Harvesting peach, nectarine trees in N Iran

SARI, Jun. 14 (MNA) – Harvest season of peach and nectarine begins July and goes through September depending on the variety and location. Gardeners have started harvesting peach and nectarine in Mazandaran, northern Iran.

By: Majid Dehghanizadeh

Harvesting mulberries in Yazd province

YAZD, Jun. 07 (MNA) – People of Yazd gather at this time of year to pick mulberries from trees. More than three people usually hold a large piece of cloth underneath a tree while one person climbs to the top of the tree, shaking the branches so that mulberries would fall.

By: Pantea Nikzad

Harvesting damask rose in Iran’s Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province

SHAHREKORD, Jun. 04 (MNA) – Farmers in Iran’s Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province have started harvesting damask rose, a widely cultivated flower throughout the country. The rose water produced from damask roses is applied in pharmaceutical and perfumery industries.

By: Maryam Davarnia

Harvesting damask rose in N. Khorasan province

BOJNOURD, May 25 (MNA) – Farmers in Iran's northeastern North Khorasan province have started harvesting damask rose, a widely cultivated flower throughout the country. The rose water produced from damask roses is applied in pharmaceutical and perfumery industries.

By: Behnam Yousefi

Harvesting damask rose in Markazi Prov.

ARAK, May 11 (MNA) – Farmers in Iran’s central province Markazi have started harvesting damask rose, a widely cultivated flower throughout the country. The rose water produced from damask roses is applied in pharmaceutical and perfumery industries.

By: Mehdi Hossein Nezhadi

Harvesting borage herb in Gilan province

ASTARA, May 10 (MNA) – Astara in Gilan province is one of the hubs for producing borage herb. Farmers in Astara pick the borage from May to mid-June.

By: Pouya Bazargard

Harvesting tea in Gilan province

LAHIJAN, May 10 (MNA) – Farmers have started tea harvest across Gilan province, northern Iran. The country is expecting to produce 135,000 tons of fresh tea leaves in the current year, registering a 10% increase in production as compared to the year before, according to the Iran Tea Organization.

By: Mahsa Safari

Harvesting ‘strawberry’ in Golestan province

GORGAN, Apr. 27 (MNA) – Strawberry is one of the agricultural capacities in Golestan province. Harvesting this product starts in the eastern part of this province from the beginning of the Iranian month of Ordibehesht [Apr. 20] and ends up to the end of Khordad [June 20].

By: Mahsa Safari

Harvesting ‘echium amoenum’ in N Iran

GORGAN, Apr. 21 (MNA) – Azadshahr country in Golestan province is one of the hubs for producing echium amoenum which is also known as ‘red feathers’. Iran’s traditional medicine gives special importance to the plant.