Iran’s plans to import some quarter of a million metric tons of red meat from Australia and Romania has worried domestic suppliers as they believe imports at such massive levels would irreparably damage husbandry units and famers in the country.
Iran’s state procurement agency, the Government Trading Corporation, reportedly purchased several hundred thousand tons of Russian milling wheat last week for April and May shipment.
Latest figures by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of United Nations show that cereal production in Iran rose by more than a fourth in 2022.
Iran’s 7th Five-Year Development Plan seeks to increase the country’s shrimp output to 160,000 tons a year, according to the head of Iran Fisheries Organization.
A latest FAO update suggests that Iran’s wheat production rose by 28% in 2022 so the country became the world’s 13th biggest producer of the crop.
A total of $205 million worth of dates were exported from Iran during the first 10 months of the current Iranian year (March 21, 2022-Jan. 20), according to the Agriculture Ministry.
A total of $327 million worth of pistachio were exported from Iran during the first 10 months of the current Iranian year (March 21, 2022-Jan. 20), according to the Agriculture Ministry.
Iran exported 6.26 million tons of agricultural and food products worth $4.03 billion during the first 10 months of the current Iranian year (March 21, 2022-Jan. 20), new data released by the Agriculture Ministry show.
China commits to some $8.1 billion worth of investment and finance to Iran’s agriculture projects.
Iran exported as much as €111 million worth of pistachio to the European Union in 2012 to become the second biggest exporter of the nut to the 27-nation bloc in the year.