Ashnoye is on the way to becoming an agricultural tourism hub
Samira Mohammadi, media activist In the note for Arya’s heritage, he wrote: This year, for the sixth year in a row (one period was not held due to the spread of Corona virus), Ashnoye Cherry Festival was held, and in three days, more than 15,000 people from all over the country came to this city to visit this festival. They traveled to enjoy the pristine nature in addition to listening to sweet music, tasting the taste of local food, buying handicrafts and eating the delicious cherries of Ashnoye, and took refuge in the lap of the cool nature of this city in the heat of the weather and spent some time as a guest of the nomads of Yilaghat. to be slaves and experience their simple and innocent life.
The holding of this festival not only resulted in the satisfaction of the participants and travelers, but in terms of economy and the prosperity of the markets for selling agricultural products and handicrafts, it also satisfied the local people, and the bringing of this satisfaction and income generation of the Gilas Festival is the unity and empathy between the people and the officials of Ashnoye to hold whatever It was more magnificent and made them determined to continue holding the festival.
Since today, agricultural tourism is one of the most attractive types of tourism, many travelers want to experience and enjoy the agricultural life by visiting agricultural fields and gardens. Agricultural land has a high capacity for the development of this type of tourism.
Ashnoye has 818 hectares of cherry orchards
Therefore, with the choice of cherry, it has been tried to promote this product as a destination for travelers interested in agricultural tourism.
According to the announcement of the Agricultural Jihad, out of the 14 thousand and 500 hectares under cultivation of Ashnoye orchards, the area under cherry cultivation in this city is 818 hectares, of which 498 hectares are fruitful and 320 hectares are unfruitful, and on average, every hectare of orchards in this city is fertile. , eight tons of product are harvested.
The varieties of cherry grown in Ashnoye include single-seeded Mashhad, cluster, yellow college, white Urmia, and a local variety called Khomali, which has excellent taste and quality and is in high demand.
Cherry harvesting has started in June in this city and the cherry picking process takes 35 to 45 days, and more than seven thousand people work directly during the cherry picking season.
A total of 14,500 hectares of agricultural lands in Shnoye are dedicated to orchards, and there are also more than 10,000 hectares of apple orchards in this city, where 200,000 tons of apples and 500 tons of cherries produced by Shnoye are exported to European countries, India, Russia, and Iraq. will be
All these statistics and figures show that Ashnoye can emerge as an agricultural tourism hub in West Azerbaijan, for which, of course, investment in the field of infrastructure should be planned.
The necessity of creating accommodation units in Ashnoye
Currently, there are only two ecotourism units in Ashnoye, and their accommodation capacity is between 30 and 50 people, and they do not meet the needs of travelers in this city. Accommodation units suitable for the accommodation of travelers rolled up their sleeves and tied their waists, so that in the seventh period of holding the Ashnoye Cherry Festival, while increasing the number of travelers, we can witness the strengthening of tourism and accommodation infrastructure in this city.
Because one of the important goals of holding festivals is to attract investors, city and provincial officials should not neglect this and only pay attention to the entertainment aspect of the festival.
Now that there has been success in introducing the capacities of Ashnoye at the provincial and national levels, the fruit of this festival, which has been economic prosperity and development, should be picked so that the people of this city can benefit from its benefits more than before.
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