More than 4,000 tons of uncarded and uncombed cotton worth 270 billion rials (over $7.2 million) were imported during the first month of the current fiscal year (March 21-April 20), according to…
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The Iranian container ship ‘Behshad’ carrying 625 TEUs from India’s Kandla Port in Kutch District of Gujarat docked at Iran’s Chabahar Port off the Persian Gulf on Tuesday, Behrouz Aqaee, director…
The provinces of East Azerbaijan, West Azerbaijan, Isfahan, Tehran, Qazvin, Kerman and Khorasan Razavi were the leading provinces in attracting foreign direct investments in 2016, according to the…
Mohammadian Varamin Polyethylene Industries Plant was inaugurated by Industry Minister Mohammadreza Nematzadeh in south Tehran on Thursday, SHATA reported.
Job creation is not within the direct purview of the government, yet it was one of the main topics in the presidential election debates last month.
Both analysts and senior government…
One of the cultural development indicators of each country according to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is the number of its moviegoers and one of the main…
Close to 141,500 tons of pistachio were exported over the last Iranian year (March 2016-17), registering a 20% increase compared with the year before, figures released by the Islamic Republic of…
Close to 2,190 tons of biscuits worth 125 billion rials (more than $3.3 million) were exported during the first month of the current Iranian year (March 21-April 20), figures released by the…
About 81% and 70% of rice harvest in Mazandaran and Gilan provinces respectively were carried out using machinery in the last Iranian year (ended March 20, 2017), director general of Grains and…
Iranian and Russian economic players attended a meeting in Moscow on Tuesday to explore ways of increasing bilateral economic cooperation.
A total of 16.23 million tons of oil and non-oil goods were loaded and unloaded in the ports of the southern Hormozgan Province in the first two months of the current Iranian year (March 21-May…
The 926-km railroad linking the capital Tehran to the eastern religious tourism hub of Mashhad is part of China's New Silk Road initiative named "One Belt, One Road", which will cut short a long…
As the new government is scrambling to form its Cabinet, President of Tehran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture, Masoud Khansari, has outlined the private sector’s expectations…
Iran met 96% of the budgetary outlay of 2.94 quadrillion rials ($78.8 billion) for the last Iranian year (March 2016-17), the head of Planning and Budget Organization said.
About 10,000 tons of dates worth close to $40 million are exported from Iran’s southern Hormozgan Province every year, an official with Hormozgan Agricultural Jihad Organization said.
South Khorasan Province’s ultimate target is to increase the outsourcing of Kazakhstan’s farmland area to 10,000 hectares, director for market control with the South Khorasan Agricultural Jihad…
Economic strategies have no place in today’s Iranian sports, including football, a former managing director of Rah Ahan F.C. said.
“The Ministry of Sports and Youth still views sports as a…
Over the past month, Oman has returned part of Iran’s agricultural shipments that lacked pesticide control certificates, the head of the National Union of Agricultural Exporters said. “…
About $137 million worth of goods were exported from and $381 million were imported to the southern Kish Island in the last Iranian year that ended March 20, 2017, registering a 30.5% rise and 15.…
Eleven development projects worth 6,180 billion rials ($167.02 million) will come on stream in the southern Shahid Rajaee Port by the end of the current fiscal year (March 2018), the director…
An Iranian union of chicken farmers said it has received requests from Qatar to import chicken eggs over a possible food shortage there after Saudi Arabia and its allies cut ties with Doha.
An average of $3 billion worth of livestock, poultry and fish feed inputs are imported by Iran every year, the head of Iran Feed Association said.
Some 220,000 tons of colza are estimated to be harvested in the current Iranian year (started March 21), from which about 100,000 tons of high-quality vegetable oil will be produced, a deputy…
Iran’s Minister of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare Ali Rabiei has been elected to preside over the Asia and the Pacific Region Labor Ministers’ Meeting. The election took place at the 106th…
With a shipment of 29,630 tons from Imam Khomeini Port in the city of Mahshahr in the southern Khuzestan Province to Oman, Iran exported its first wheat consignment on Monday.
