Iranian customs office (IRICA) figures show pistachio exports from the country declined by nearly a third in the calendar year to March 20.
Iran has not ordered the border customs to ban the exports of four agricultural products, according to the spokesman of Iran Customs Administration (IRICA) Ruhollah Latifi.
The war in Ukraine has troubled Iran’s overseas farming in the east European country, according to the Chairman of Iran’s National Union for Agricultural Products.
More than 5.7 million hectares of farmland have gone under wheat cultivation so far this year, which is 5% less than last year’s area, according to the Agriculture Ministry.
The average Producer Price Index for industrial chicken farms in the four quarters ending Dec. 21, which marks the end of Q3 fiscal 2021-22, increased by 69% compared with the similar period of the year before.
A report by East Fruit on January 29 said that Iran accounted for 40% of Ukraine’s kiwi fruit imports to become the largest supplier of this fruit to the East European country.
Iran exported 6.263 million tons of agricultural and foodstuff products worth $3.878 billion in the first nine months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21-December 21, 2021), Deputy Agriculture Minister Mohammad Ghorbani said.
Head of Cross Country Agriculture Association of Iran Ali Rezvanizadeh says that “if we can cultivate one million hectares of agricultural lands in Russia, we can meet 10% of our import needs.”
Figures by Iran’s customs office (IRICA) show that pistachio exports from the country declined by around a fifth in the nine months to December 21.
In the next fiscal year’s budget bill (March 2022-23), the government has given priority to the import of agricultural crops cultivated in foreign countries under the ‘Farming Beyond Borders’ program.