Tea Production Meets 30% of Domestic Demand

Domestic tea industry meets 30% of local demand, generates $10 million per year and its annual turnover hovers around 20,000 billion rials ($83 million), says Habib Jahansaz, the head of Tea Organization of Iran.
Local demand for tea stands at 100,000 tons per year, such that in the current Iranian year (March 2020-21), a total of 133,000 tons of tea leaves were harvested, from which 30,000 tons of dried tea were produced, he added.
Jahansaz put tea farmers’ total income in the current year at 5,120 billion rials ($21 million) and said, “Iran’s tea industry has seen a 5-10% growth. The government has paid off almost all its debts to tea farmers and only 20% of the share of tea factories have yet to be paid.  Iran is home to 162 tea factories today compared with 134 in the last decade.”