A total of 11.5 million tons of wheat were produced on 4.9 million hectares of farms across Iran during the last crop year (September 2021-22).
Iran’s pistachio exports reached $915 million last year which accounts for a half of the country’s horticultural products, a senior official with the Ministry of Agriculture said on Saturday.
Director-general of the Iranian Agriculture Ministry’s Office of Processing and Food Industries said 98 percent of the country’s food industry, including production, processing, and export industries, is operated by the private sector.
Atotal of 22,723 tons of tea worth $29.5 million were exported from Iran during the first eight months of the current Iranian year (March 21-Nov. 21), registering a 31.7% rise in value compared with the similar period of last year.
Iran exported 4.86 million tons of agricultural and food products worth $2.99 billion in the first eight months of the current Iranian year (March 21-Nov. 21), new data released by the Agriculture Ministry show.
More than 88,000 tons of seafood worth $172 million were exported from Iran during the first seven months of the current Iranian year (March 21-Oct. 22).
Iranian northern province of Mazandaran plans to export citrus fruits to China, a local official said on Wednesday, Trend reports citing IRNA.
Iran has stopped signing all contracts to import tea and basmati rice from India as of last week, Business Standard reported.
Iran has produced as much as 20.8 million tons of grains in this crop year, according to a recent report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
Head of Iran Fisheries Organization said on Saturday that Iran has targeted to export some 160,000 tons of shrimp by the country’s 2025 Vision Plan.