کد خبر: ۱۳۰۱۳۰۸

تاریخ: ۱۹ مهر ۱۳۹۲ - ۰۹:۱۵

Quranic Garden Launched in Rasht

The country’s first Quranic garden was launched in a ceremony in the northern city.

The garden contains plants and trees mentioned in the Holy Quran.

Supreme Leader’s Representative in Agricultural Jihad Ministry Ayatollah Hassan Alami and number of the ministry and provincial officials attended the event.

In an address to the ceremony, Ayatollah Alamai said some 1000 verses of the Quran are about agriculture.

He said 150 varieties of fruit trees and 85 types of other plans have been planted in the Quranic garden.

The cleric also noted that treatises and dissertations by religious scholars about agriculture are being compiled in the Islamic Encyclopedia of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environment.

Dates, olives, figs, pomegranates and grapes are some of the fruits planted in the Quranic garden of Rasht.

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