Kerman Exports at Record High

A record high of more than $1.1 billion worth of goods were exported from Kerman Province in the last Iranian year (March 2016-17), Mehdi Hosseininejad, the head of Kerman Industries, Mining and Trade Organization, was quoted as saying by IRNA. Kerman, located in southeast Iran, is the second-largest province of the country after Sistan-Baluchestan. It is Iran’s main pistachio production hub, accounting for more than 70% of all the pistachios grown in the country.