In an interview, the Director General of the Office of Greenhouses, Ornamental Plants and Edible Mushrooms, stated: "Production forecast of vegetables and summer and fruits and unusual crops such as Physalis, Passion Fruit and Dragon Fruit for this year is 3 million and 483 thousand tons, of which we have estimated production of 2 million and 600 thousand tons so far."
Gholamreza Taghavi also mentioned that they expect that by the end of this year's harvest time, in greenhouses, the production of these products will reach about 3 million and 163 thousand tons.
Regarding the cultivation of new crops in the country's greenhouse units, he said: "production of various garden products such as pineapple, banana, turmeric and ginger is planned in greenhouses."
The following items are among the priority programs in the greenhouses section: Transfer of cultivation of vegetables and summer outdoors to the controlled environment, improvement, reconstruction and modernization of greenhouse units and cultivation of edible mushrooms, improvement of production management in the controlled environment by upgrading the technical knowledge of experts and exploiters by training skilled labor and using technology.
For more information:
Ministry of agriculture - Jahad of Iran
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