Wheat Silos Capacity on the Rise Nationwide

A silo with a wheat storage capacity of 30,000 tons was launched in the southern Khuzestan Province’s Hamidiyeh County on Sunday in a ceremony attended by Agriculture Minister Kazem Khavazi.
“The private sector has invested 150 billion rials [$608,500] for the construction of this silo,” director general of Grain Affairs and Commercial Services Department of Khuzestan’s Agricultural Organization, Omid Jahan-Najadiyan, was quoted as saying by IRNA.
When the silo comes on stream, he added, the province’s total wheat storage capacity will reach 1.44 million tons, which is more than Khuzestan’s annual wheat yield.
Khuzestan is Iran’s biggest producer of wheat.
The Government Trading Corporation of Iran plans to purchase 10 million tons of wheat from local farmers at guaranteed prices in the current crop year (Sept. 2020-21).