The value of Iran’s tea import has declined 62 percent in the first 10 months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21, 2023-January 20, 2024), as compared to the same period in the past year.
Iran has produced as much as 149,310 tons of tea in this crop year to set a 13-year record, according to the head of the Iranian Tea Organization.
Production of green tea leaves in Iran’s northern Gilan and Mazandaran provinces has increased by 42% this year, according to the head of the country’s tea organization.
Iran’s annual tea imports hit an all-time record in the calendar year to late March, according to figures by the country’s customs administration (IRICA).
A total 3,376 tons of Iranian tea worth $3.28 million were exported to 20 countries in the first two months of the current Iranian year (March 21-May 21), according to the executive manager of the Tea Factories Syndicate.
Iran exported over 27,272 tons of tea leaves valued at $28 million in the previous Iranian calendar year 1400 (ended on March 20), registering a 77 percent rise in value and a 68 percent increase in weight, the spokesman of the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration (IRICA) said.
Sri Lanka is likely to sign a deal with Iran to sell its famed tea over the next two years in exchange for the settlement of loans obtained for the purchase of oil, Sunday Times reports.