Iran Agriculture News
October 09, 2019 17:45
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October 09,2019Iran is expected to achieve self-sufficiency in rice production in the current fiscal year (ending March 2020). It is estimated that rice production will increase 42% this year to reach between 2.... -
October 06,2019Iran exported agricultural products worth $5 billion in the first half of the current fiscal year (March 21-Sept. 22), around 50% of which, amounting over $2.5 billion, pertained to orchard crops... -
October 06,2019A total of 111,818 tons of tea leaves have been purchased by the government from local farmers at 3.09 trillion rials ($26.98 million) in the first half of the current fiscal year (started March 21... -
September 25,2019Colza cultivation has begun in Iranian provinces, according to the director of Agriculture Ministry’s “National Oilseed Project”. “Colza seeds, sufficient to cultivate 500,000 hectares of farms,... -
September 23,2019Rice production has exceeded 2.6 million tons this year, showing a rise of 13-18% compared with last year’s output, according to the secretary of Iran Rice Association. “Annual domestic demand for... -
September 21,2019A solid increase in agricultural production has been the main driver of economic growth registered in the first quarter of the current Iranian year (started March 21). Central Bank of Iran's... -
August 28,2019Bank Keshavarzi Iran, the state-owned lender to the agriculture sector, plans to lend 520 trillion rials ($4.6 billion) to agriculture projects by next March, the bank CEO said. Speaking to the... -
August 25,2019More than 98,479 tons of fresh tea leaves have so far been purchased by the government from local farmers for 2.78 trillion rials ($23.96 million), which shows a 15% rise compared with the similar... -
August 23,2019Iran's International Rice Trade Center and Export Terminal was inaugurated in the city of Amol, located in the northern Mazandaran Province, on Aug. 21, in the presence of First Vice President Es'... -
August 03,2019Iran's apple production is expected to reach 4-4.5 million tons by the end of the current Iranian year (March 19, 2020), in view of the abundant rainfall experienced at the beginning of this year,... -
August 02,2019Domestic rice production is expected to reach 2.5 million tons by the end of the current Iranian year (March 19, 2020), the director general of the Agriculture Ministry's Grains and Essential Goods... -
July 31,2019With more than 5.1 million tons of production, Iran ranks 13th among the world’s biggest producer of potatoes, Deputy Agriculture Minister Hossein Shirzad says, citing the 2019 data of the Food and... -
July 03,2019Olive production is estimated to reach 120,000 tons in the current fiscal year (started March 21) to register a 20% increase compared with last year's output, the executive manager of the... -
June 25,2019Restrictions will be imposed on rice cultivation in Iranian provinces other than the two northern provinces of Gilan and Mazandaran. According to deputy agriculture minister for water and soil... -
June 11,2019A total of 50,309 tons of green tea leaves produced during the spring harvest have been purchased by the government from local farmers at 1.58 trillion rials ($12.39 million). This shows an 18%... -
May 29,2019The Producer Price Index for the “agronomy, horticulture and traditional husbandry” group in the year to March 20, 2019, which marks the end of last Iranian year, increased by 47.8% compared with... -
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...
