Iran has plans to produce as much as 2.5 million tons of rice in the new calendar year which began on March 20, according to an official familiar with the matter.
Iran exports 200 tons of high-quality saffron overseas annually, according to someone familiar with the matter.
Iran’s export of food and agricultural products in the 11 months of the current Iranian calendar year (started March 21, 2023) registered a 23-percent growth compared to the same period last year, an official said.
An official at Iran’s House of Industry, Mine and Trade said that the country exported $4.3 billion worth of food and agricultural products overseas in the nine months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21 to December 22, 2023).
The Iranian government has lifted its curbs on exports of dates from the country just ahead of the holy month of Ramadan when demand for dates soars in Muslim countries.
Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, has announced that Iran exported €92 million worth of pistachios to Europe in 2023, making it the second-largest pistachio exporter to the continent.
Ali Hosseini, a member of Iran’s National Saffron Council, says the country provides some 80 to 90 percent of the total world needs for saffron.
Iran has exported some $270 million worth of dates in the 10 months to January, an industry source has said.
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.
The head of the Cattlemen Association of Iran said the country is the 19th largest producer of raw milk in the world.