Shahid Eftekhari Shaft Tea Research Station

(Fashalam)

Technical Specifications

Area 19 hectares-established year1325

Infrastructure includes; Water resources (deep wells),

، Office and security building، Fixed irrigation system (mobile sprinkler), Warehouse, Insectarium, Meteorological Station, Gas and Electricity.

Duties and services

v Location of research projects and student theses in the field of tea

v Technical advice to tea growers in Shaft, Rasht, Fooman, Soomesara

v Holding a farm day and educational and extension classes

v Cooperation with the executive departments (tea departments and agricultural jihad management of the covered cities).

Dedicated facilities and capabilities

ü Exploitable-research pieces of tea with an area of 8.5 hectares

ü Mother plants of improved tea cultivars with an area of 1 hectare

ü Seed garden with an area of 1 hectare

ü Research plots with an area of 1 hectare for research projects

ü Doing student theses in master's and doctoral degrees

Dedicated facilities and capabilities

Reproduction piece:In order to invest and partner with the private sector for mass production of modified colony figures

(To produce 250,000 cloned tea seedlings over an 18-month period)

Insectarium:Partnership with the private sector for the production of biological agents For the production of Cryptolumus ladybug To control the powdery mildew of tea mite.

Possibility of transferring 5 hectares of station lands to the private sector for rice production annually.

address

Gilan, 12 km of Rasht-Fooman Lishavandan road; Phone (01334772967)- Trc.hsri.ac.ir