“Frost caused more than 4.67 trillion rials [$19 million] in losses, which account for 45% of the overall damage. Losses caused by hailstorm stood at 4.48 trillion rials [$18 million], which accounted for 43.2% of the losses,” Akbar Fat’hi, a local official, was quoted as saying by IRNA.
He added that storm, flood and fire also caused losses amounting to 1 trillion rials ($4 million), 206.75 billion rials ($850.823) and 2.99 billion rials ($12,300) to the northeasters province’s agricultural subsectors.
East Azarbaijan Province has 1.22 million hectares of farmlands and orchards, 800,000 hectares of which are rain-fed and the rest are irrigated land.
The province annually produces close to 5 million tons of agricultural products.