Harvest Season

By: Mehdi Pedramkhoo

Harvesting Roselle flowers in SW Iran

AHVAZ, Oct. 26 (MNA) – Domestic farmers of Alwa village, Khuzestan province, are harvesting Roselle flowers which are mainly used for producing Hibiscus tea.

By: Marjan Kouhestani

Onion harvest in NE Iran

BOJNORD, Oct. 24 (MNA) – The following photos show harvesting onions in rural areas of North Khorasan province. More than 2500 tons of different agricultural products are annually produced in the province.

By: Aryan Nasrollahi

Harvesting pomegranates in Hawraman

HAWRAMAN, Oct. 21 (MNA) – Hawraman is a mountainous region in western Iran, known for its pomegranates, or as locals call it, 'Red Jewels'. The pomegranates become ripe for picking in autumn, and then are sent to different parts of the country. Locals also use the fruit to make pomegranate molasses, a richly sour/sweet ingredient used in some Persian cuisine, like Fesenjan.

By: Raheleh Hesari

Cotton harvest in Golestan province

GORGAN, Oct. 16 (MNA) – Some 1,500 tons of cotton bolls have been harvested in Golestan province in the current Iranian calendar year (starting on March 21) till the date and the harvesting will continue to mid-November. Here you can see farmers pick cotton by hand.

By: Rahbar Emamdadi

Employment to boom in Hajiabad

BANDAR ABBAS, Oct. 10 (MNA) – Picking and harvesting Piarom date will start in Hajiabad, Hormozgan province, in mid-Oct. It is predicted that more than 10,000 tons of fresh date will be picked at the end of harvesting time in Hajiabad for exporting to the European countries, Canada, US, Australia, Russia and Central Asia. Piarom dates, also known as Marayami dates, are round and black-brown, widely considered as the most delicious of all semi-dry date varieties.

By: Farhad Safari

Tomato harvest in Qazvin

QAZVIN, Oct. 08 (MNA) – The following photos show harvesting tomatoes in Buein Zahra, Qazvin province, where tomatoes are widely grown and harvested.

By: Mohsen Nofresti

Jujube harvest in Birjand

BIRJAND, Oct. 02 (MNA) – The jujube, known as "Red Pearl", is produced in South Khorasan province. This province, with allocating 98 percent of the cultivated area to the fruit, is considered the first jujube producer in the country and in the world.

By: Iman Hamikhah

Harvesting grapes, extracting raisins in Malayer

TEHRAN, Sep. 25 (MNA) – Every year with the start of fall season, grapes are harvested in region of Jozan Valley and villages of Toosk and Jozan in Malayer, Hamedan province.

By: Mahdi Zavvar

Harvesting chickpeas in Urmia's fields

URMIA The West Azerbaijan province holds the third ranking in Iran in cultivating chickpea crops. Each year, 70,000 hectares of fields in the province are used for dry farming chickpeas.

By: Mehdi Pedramkhoo

Grape harvesting in Karun county

KARUN, Jul. 04 (MNA) – Grape Harvesting in Khuzestan province’s villages begins in July and continues to August. Pictures feature Ghazaviyeh-ye Bozorg, a villages situated on Eastern side of Karun River, in Karun county.

By: Mohammad Mahdi Maleki

Last days of pomegranate pick in Isfahan province

TEHRAN, Dec. 17 (MNA) –The pomegranate growers are picking their 2017 harvest on the last days of autumn. As winter approaches the harvest gets over in Shahreza, a city in Isfahan Province with vast gardens of pomegranate.

By: Masoumeh Fariborzi

Farmers pick cotton harvest in NW Iran

TEHRAN, Nov. 20 (MNA) – Farmers in Iranian northwestern province of East Azerbaijan pick the cotton harvest of 2017 in mid-autumn. Cotton is the main agricultural production of Khoda-Afarin County.

By: Mehdi Hosseinnejadi

Kiwi fruit harvest in northern Iran

ASTARA, Nov. 08 (MNA) –The kiwi fruit is harvested on a 520-hectare garden in Astara County, Gilan Province. The crops will be packaged for exports to neighboring countries.

By: Mohsen Noferesti

Red gold harvest in S Khorasan

BIRJAND, Oct. 30 (MNA) – The harvest process of Saffron, the most expensive and sought after spice in the world commonly known as red gold, began in South Khorasan province.

By: Fatemeh Abedi

Saffron harvest in Arak

ARAK, Oct. 29 (MNA) – Farmers start harvesting Saffron in Markazi province.

By: Saeid Goli

Harvest season thanksgiving ceremony held

TEHRAN, Dec. 12 (MNA) – President Hassan Rouhani has attended a harvest season thanksgiving ceremony in the Summit Conference Hall on Monday.

Harvest time for grape growers in Iran’s Takestan

TAKESTAN, Sep. 13 (MNA) – Takestan is Persian word for vineyard and the city in Qazvin province of Iran named after it is now busy with harvesters as the season for picking the grapes has reached.

By: Shima Ahangari

Traditional rice harvest

TEHRAN, Sep. 07 (MNA) – Farmers of Chardangeh region in Mazandaran province harvest the rice in traditional way without using any modern machinery every summer.