East Azarbaijan Province produced about 200 tons of pistachio from 160 hectares of land dedicated to its cultivation during the current Iranian year (started March 20), registering a 15% rise compared with last year, according to Abolfazl Shakouri, an official with the northeastern Iranian province’s Agricultural Jihad Organization, a provincial body of the Agriculture Ministry.
Iran exported over 40,000 tons of pistachio worth $381.64 million during the first half of the current Iranian year, the Ministry of Agriculture’s news portal reported.
The figure shows a 22% and 20% growth in weight and value respectively.
According to the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration, pistachio was Iran’s third biggest non-oil exportcommodity in terms of revenues during the period, after steel and iron ore.
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