Iran Agriculture News
May 13, 2019 19:12
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May 14,2019Iran is estimated to have produced 2.8 million tons of barley during the fiscal 2018-19 (US local marketing year) to indicate a 9.67% decrease compared with the year before, the United States... -
May 13,2019Iran is estimated to produce 14.5 million tons of wheat during the fiscal 2018-19 (US local marketing year), to indicate a 3.57% rise compared with the year before, the United States Department of... -
May 06,2019Iran recorded an agrifood trade deficit of $4.44 billion in the last Iranian year (March 2018-19), which shows a 5.7% improvement year-on-year. More than 6.95 million tons of agricultural and... -
May 05,2019Land under cotton cultivation will increase by 20% to stand at 80,000 hectares in the current Iranian year (started March 21), the deputy agriculture minister said. “Cotton cultivation can create... -
April 27,2019Locust swarms threaten 1.25 quadrillion rials ($9 billion) worth of agricultural products across six provinces in southern Iran, the head of Plant Protection Organization affiliated with the... -
April 15,2019Around $80 billion worth of agricultural products are produced in Iran every year, $75 billion of which are consumed inside the country, the agriculture minister said. “Iran currently meets 85% of... -
April 12,2019Iran recorded an agrifood trade deficit of $3.64 billion for the 11 months to Feb. 19, 2019, which shows a 7.1% rise year-on-year. More than 6.38 million tons of agricultural and food products... -
April 12,2019Some $500 million worth of greenhouse crops were exported from Iran during the last Iranian year (March 2018-19), which shows a more than twofold increase compared with the previous year. -
March 02,2019Groundwater reserves are being depleted at an alarming rate because of poor management and excessive consumption in the agricultural sector. Agriculture Minister Mahmoud Hojjati says “Regarding... -
March 01,2019Iran exported a total of 13,000 tons of tea worth $18 million during the first 10 months of the current Iranian year (March 21, 2018-Jan. 20). According to Habibollah Jahansaz, the head of Iran... -
February 25,2019Iran recorded an agrifood trade deficit of $2.8 billion in the first 10 months of the current Iranian year (March 21, 2018-Jan. 20), which shows a 10.5% improvement year-on-year. The figures were... -
February 22,2019A total of 46,000 tons of farmed shrimp have been produced in Iran since the beginning of the current Iranian year (March 21, 2018), the director general of Iran Fisheries Organization's Shrimp and...
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February 20,2019Iran produced 7,100 tons of olive oil since the beginning of the current Iranian year on March 21, Rahmatollah Parichehr, the manager of “Olive Project” implemented by the Agriculture Ministry’s... -
February 20,2019Close to $1.15 billion worth of agricultural products were exported from the southern Khuzestan Province during the last Iranian year (March 2017-18) to register a threefold rise compared with the... -
February 16,2019Tehran Province has the largest share of area under greenhouse cultivation in Iran. According to Karim Zolfaqari, the head of Tehran Agricultural Jihad Organization, Tehran has 3,500 hectares from... -
February 12,2019Swarms of desert locusts have been spotted in the southern provinces of Iran, including Hormozgan, Khuzestan, Fars and Bushehr. -
January 29,2019Iran exported 950,000 tons of greenhouse products worth $350 million during the first nine months of the current Iranian year (March 21-Dec. 21), according to the CEO of Agricultural Parks Company... -
January 13,2019Iran exported 5.06 million tons of agricultural and food products worth $4.76 billion during the first nine months of the current Iranian year (March 21-Dec. 21) to register a 15.3% growth in value... -
January 07,2019President Hassan Rouhani has sounded the alarm on the worsening water crisis saying his administration invested $11.5 billion in the water sector after he took office in 2013. In a meeting with... -
January 06,2019High customs duties, non-sustainability and the small scale of businesses, export companies and holdings are the three main handicaps facing Iran's agricultural exports to Russia, the head of... -
December 31,2018Cotton is set to be the first genetically-modified crop authorized for cultivation in Iran. Earlier in the current Iranian year (started March 21), the National Biosafety Council, chaired by First... -
December 24,2018Iran exported 4.58 million tons of agricultural and food products worth $4.57 billion during the first eight months of the current Iranian year (March 21-Nov. 21) to register a 7.9% growth in value... -
December 22,2018About 420,000 tons of agricultural products cultivated in greenhouses worth 10 trillion rials ($98 million) are exported from Iran’s central Yazd Province every year. -
December 22,2018Maku Free Trade Zone in northwestern Iran will soon become the country’s major port of entry for importing livestock and meat -
December 18,2018Officials from the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization and Iran’s Forests, Range and Watershed Management Organization agreed to sign a memorandum of understanding on watershed...
