IRICA Confirms Palm Tree Exports From Iran

Around a month after rumors started circulating that Iranian palm trees were being smuggled from the country’s southern provinces, Bushehr in particular, to the littoral states of the Persian Gulf, the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration has now confirmed that exports have been made under the supervision of Bushehr’s Agricultural Organization.
“A total of 650 tons of palm trees and palm tree saplings were exported during the first seven months of the current Iranian year [March 21-Oct. 22]. Some 600 tons of the volume were palm trees and the rest were saplings,” Mehrdad Jamal Arvanaqi, IRICA’s deputy head for technical affairs, was quoted as saying by ISNA.