Iran Agriculture
Iran inaugurates 32 research projects in agriculture
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Cotton, Climate, and Camels in Early Islamic Iran: A Moment in World History $20.00 A boom in the production and export of cotton made Iran the richest region of the Islamic caliphate in the ninth and tenth centuries. Yet in the eleventh century, Iran’s impressive agricultural economy entered a steep decline, bringing the country’s primacy to an end.Richard W. Bulliet advances several provocative theses to explain these hitherto unrecognized historical events. According to Bullie… |
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Saffron (Crocus sativus): Production and Processing $60.55 Saffron is a precious spice which is mainly grown in Iran, India, Spain, Greece, Italy, Pakistan, Morocco, and central Asian countries. Until recently, saffron was perceived only for its value as a spice. However, with recent research findings pointing to the medicinal properties of saffron such as its antimicrobial, anticarcinogenic and antioxidant effects, interest in this plant has increased. T… |
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Living With the Desert: Working Buildings $24.59 For centuries man has adapted his way of life to the harsh conditions of the Iranian Plateau by the use of simple technology. This text examines this process in detail, studying not the grand religious and military structures, but those of the ordinary people, and how such devices as the wind-catcher, the dome, the ice-house, and wind and watermills were adapted to make life comfortable under dese… |
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