Iran: World’s 3rd Biggest Producer of Pomegranate

A total of 1.1 million tons of pomegranates are expected to be produced from around 90,000 hectares across the country by the end of the current Iranian year (March 20, 2022), according to an Agriculture Ministry official.
“Fars, Semnan, Yazd, Markazi, Khorasan Razavi, Isfahan, Lorestan, South Khorasan, Kerman and Mazandaran are Iran’s main pomegranate cultivation hubs,” Zahra Jalili-Moqaddam was also quoted as saying by IRNA.