Wheat cultivation level reached more than 5 million hectares from the beginning of the current season till the 4th of January, which indicates that 97% of the program has been achieved, Wheat Project Executive said.

Ismail Esfandiarpour added: Of this, the area under cultivation was 1 million hectares of irrigated wheat and 3 million hectares of dry wheat in different regions of the country.

According to him, this year’s plan foresees a total of 2 million hectares of wheat crop, two million hectares of which are irrigated wheat and four million hectares for rainfed wheat.

Wheat cultivation increased by 2% compared to the same period last year, he added. This year, the wheat cultivation area has increased by 6,000 hectares compared to last year, which could increase production. Have an impact.

He added that farmers used more self-harvested seeds this year, adding that this year during the wheat growing season, 6,000 wheat seeds were purchased.

According to the host of the country’s wheat project, farmers needed to use improved wheat seeds to increase production performance.

Esfandiarpour said: According to the Economic Council resolution, the guaranteed purchase price per kilogram of ordinary wheat was set at 2,5000 rials, with a beneficial 4% drop and a 1% drop for durum wheat at 22900 rials.

He added: This year, the Ministry of Agriculture, in cooperation with the National Wheat Farmers Foundation, has signed a contract with the National Wheat Farmers Foundation to contract durum wheat plants in the Kerman, South Fars and Khuzestan regions with a 10% increase in prices compared to the previous year. Rate approved.

According to him, under this contract, pasta factories must buy 2 thousand and 2 tomans per kilogram of durum wheat.

Wheat cultivation project manager Jihad Ministry of Agriculture pointed to the end of wheat planting season said: Wheat cultivation is still in hot areas.

According to the government decree, the rate per kilogram of certified wheat was 2 thousand tomans and the dry wheat seed was 2 thousand tomans, which was reduced by five to eight percent compared to the previous one, so that the previous approved rate per kilogram of seeds The blue wheat was two thousand and two and the dry wheat was two thousand and two tomans.

Last year, about eight million tonnes of wheat were purchased from farmers, the rate of which was 154 per kg of common wheat, with a yield of 1,500 tomans and 1 percent tomatoes and 1,500 tomatoes.

Guaranteed purchase of wheat started in late March this year from Jiroft city in southern Kerman and will continue until the end of October in provinces across the country