Harvest Season

By: Mehdi Bakhshi

Harvesting pomegranates from oldest garden in Qom prov.

QOM, Nov. 13 (MNA) – Covering over 6 ha of land, Fat’habad Garden is the oldest garden in Qom province which has remained intact over a long period of time. This garden is as old as 200 years, best known for its pomegranates.
2019-11-13 14:43
By: Marzieh Ghazizadeh

Cotton harvest in Golestan Prov.

GORGAN, Nov. 03 (MNA) – Farmers in Iranian northeastern province of Golestan pick the cotton from September to mid-November. Cotton is the main agricultural product of Baghoo Kenareh County. Golestan province is the third-largest producer of cotton in Iran.
2019-11-03 16:17
By: Maryam Davarnia

Saffron harvest season kicks off in northeastern Iran

BOJNURD, Nov. 03 (MNA) – Autumn is the harvest season for saffron, which in Iran is known as the 'red gold' due to being the world's most expensive spice. Many farmers in North Khorasan Province in northeastern Iran are busy with harvesting saffron flowers at this time of the year. According to an Agriculture Ministry official, Iranian farmers are expected to produce 430 tons of saffron by mid-March 2020.
2019-11-03 13:53
By: Mohammad Mehdi Maleki

Harvesting pomegranates in Shahreza

SHAHREZA, Nov. 03 (MNA) – Shahreza is known as Isfahan's third top city in terms of pomegranate production. The city has some 1,650 ha of land under cultivation, producing various types of pomegranate in Autumn.
2019-11-03 09:39
By: Esmail Khortan

Harvesting, processing pistachios in Sirjan

DARESTAN, Oct. 06 (MNA) – Darestan village, 29km far from Sirjan county in Kerman province, is known for its quality pistachios. After harvesting, the pistachios are transferred to factories for processing, during which the external soft shells are removed and the moisture is decreased.
2019-10-06 11:11
By: Pouya Bazargard

Olive harvest in Rudbar, N Iran

RUDBAR, Oct. 02 (MNA) – Olive is the most important agricultural product of Rudbar County in Gilan province. Rudbar's local economy notably includes olives and olive-based products. The harvest season begins in September and continues until the end of December.
2019-10-02 14:25
By: Aryan Nasrollahi

Harvesting black grapes in Kordestan province

SARVABAD, Oct. 01 (MNA) – Kordestan province, in western Iran, annually produces more than 60,000 tons of black grapes. Paygelan village, in Saravabad city, is a hub of grapes' production in the province with producing more than 2,000 tons of grapes every year.
2019-10-01 11:25
By: Pantea Nikzad

Harvesting onion in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari prov.

CHAHARMAHAL AND BAKHTIARI PROV., Sep. 25 (MNA) –Onion is cultivated in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province sporadically. Moreover, meeting demands of domestic market of province, surplus onion is exported to neighboring provinces as well.
2019-09-25 15:27
By: Rahbar Emamdadi

Date harvest in Bandar Abbas

BANDAR ABBAS, Sep. 16 (MNA) – Harvesting season for date has started in Bandar Abbas, Hormozgan province, southern Iran. It is predicted that more than 140,000 tons of fresh date will be picked by the end of harvesting season.
2019-09-16 16:51
By: Pouya Bazargard

Harvesting peanuts in Astaneh Ashrafieh

ASTANEH ASHRAFIEH, Aug. 24 (MNA) – Peanut is the most important agricultural product of Astaneh Ashrafieh county in Gilan province. Peanut is cultivated on more than 2,000 ha land areas of this sub-province, which supplies 80 percent of the country’s peanut.
2019-08-24 10:51
By: Mohammad Hossein Ghanbari

Traditional wheat harvesting in Kerman

KERMAN, Aug. 13 (MNA) – Farmers of Deh Ziyar village in Kerman province, harvest wheat using traditional methods.
2019-08-13 14:17
By: Mehdi Hossein Nejadi

Rice harvest in Astara, N Iran

ASTARA, Aug. 11 (MNA) – Farmers have started harvesting rice on paddy fields of Astara region of Gilan province, northern Iran. The harvest season will continue until the end of summer.
2019-08-11 16:11
By: Gholamreza Zanganeh

Potato harvest in Iran’s Hamedan

HAMEDAN, Jul. 23 (MNA) – Farmers in Hamedan Province, Iran have started harvesting their potatoes farmlands.
2019-07-23 14:23
By: Hamid Heidari

Harvesting fresh lime in orchards of Hormozgan prov.

HASHTBANDI, Jul. 07 (MNA) – Horticulturists in Hashtbandi district, Hormozgan province, started harvesting lime product on a land area as large as 1,200 ha. The lime harvested from this province is exported to the large cities including Tehran, Isfahan, Shiraz, Tabriz and Mashhad.
2019-07-07 12:57
By: Ali Ghanbarlou

Harvesting green bean in farms near Tehran

TEHRAN, Jul. 03 (MNA) – There are about 100,000 hectares of green bean farms in Iran. Above 180,000 tons of this product are harvested in spring and summer each year and mainly consumed by domestic market.
2019-07-03 19:43
By: Aryan Nasrollahi

Strawberry harvest in Kurdestan province

KURDESTAN, May 28 (MNA) – Farmers in the Iranian province of Kurdestan have started harvesting strawberries. Some 46,000 tons of strawberries from 3,000 hectares of the western province's farmlands are expected to enter the market this year.
2019-05-28 18:10
By: Negin Nasiraei

Harvesting damask rose in northern Mazandaran prov.

BABOL, May 12 (MNA) – Harvest of damask rose (Persian rose) in “Allah Roudbar” Village, central district of Babol, Mazandaran province, starts as of May 5 every year. The flowers are renowned for their fine fragrance, and are commercially harvested for rose oil " or "rose absolute") used in perfumery and to make rose water and "rose concrete". The flower petals are also edible.
2019-05-12 10:40
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.
2018-10-26 15:46
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.
2018-10-24 12:14
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.
2018-10-21 16:18
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.
2018-10-16 15:58
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.
2018-10-10 12:38
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.
2018-10-08 08:48
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.
2018-10-02 15:12
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.
2018-09-25 14:10
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.
2018-07-17 14:58
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.
2018-07-04 14:31
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.
2017-12-17 20:16
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.
2017-11-20 23:40
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.
2017-11-08 15:30