(IANA) – “The damages made by coldness to the gardening sector is 2 thousand 11 billion 765 million Rials, that of drought is one billion 450 million Rials and those of farming sector are 100 billion 151 million and 701 billion 16 million Rials, respectively,” said the head of the agricultural jihad organization of the province East Azerbaijan.
“87 thousand 757 hectares of farmlands of the province has gone under cultivation of fruitful trees and it was anticipated that 821 thousand 806 tons of commodities would be yielded, but the coldness and drought pulled this number down to only 482 thousand 240 tons,” added Salman Shafa’at.\
“978 million Rials of damages were caused by coldness and one thousand 51 billion 154 million Rials by drought,” he continued.
Translated By: Aref Mohammadzadeh
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