Iran Agriculture News
February 05, 2020 18:20
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February 05,2020Iran’s agricultural production is expected to reach 128 million tons by the end of the current fiscal year (March 19) to witness a 6-million-ton increase compared with last year’s output, according... -
February 02,2020Power consumption data between March to December 2019 shows an increase of 3.2% compared to the corresponding period in the previous year. Subscribers used 195 billion kilo watt hours in the 9-... -
January 31,2020A total of 5 million tons of agricultural and food products worth close to $4.1 billion were exported from Iran during the first nine months of the current Iranian year (March 21-Dec. 21). The... -
January 27,2020Every day 3,000 tons of apples are exported from West Azarbaijan Province, according to the head of the provincial Agricultural Jihad Organization. -
January 22,2020Iran has launched the production of vegetable seeds, according to the Agriculture Ministry’s caretaker, Abbas Keshavarz. -
January 15,2020The agricultural mechanization coefficient in Iran presently stands at 1.8 horsepower per hectare. -
January 14,2020Land under wheat cultivation in Iran has reached 6 million hectares in the current cultivation season (started late September of 2019), according to latest data released by the Agriculture Ministry... -
January 07,2020Iran’s East Azarbaijan Province exported $282 million worth of agricultural products during the first nine months of the current Iranian year (March 21-Dec. 21, 2019) to register a 45% increase... -
December 31,2019A total of 4.07 million tons of fruits and vegetables worth $1.59 billion were exported from Iran during the last Iranian year (March 2018-19) to register a 9% and 35% rise in weight and value... -
December 30,2019A total of 4,000 tons of tea have been exported from Iran since the beginning of the current Iranian year on March 21, according to Habibollah Jahansaz, the head of Iran Tea Organization. Based... -
December 29,2019A total of 100,000 tons of kiwis have been exported from Iran’s northern Mazandaran Province since the beginning of the current fiscal year (March 21), registering a twofold increase compared with... -
December 18,2019The number of Iran's export markets for its agricultural products is shrinking by the day, Agriculture Ministry’s caretaker, Abbas Keshavarz, has warned. "We have already lost the European markets... -
December 16,2019Iran’s greenhouse tomato output is predicted to reach 333,883 tons by the end of the current Iranian year (March 19, 2020), the director general of Agriculture Ministry’s Greenhouse, Medicinal... -
December 07,2019A total of 320,000 tons of pistachios have been produced in Iran since the beginning of the current Iranian year (March 21), an Agriculture Ministry official said. -
December 06,2019Iran exported 3.58 million tons of agrifood products worth over $2.79 million during the first seven months of the current Iranian year (March 21-Oct. 22). “This accounted for 11.42% of Iran’s... -
December 01,2019The biggest month-on-month price rise for a food item during the month ending Nov. 21 was recorded for tomatoes with 55.5%. A kilogram of tomatoes was sold at 39,699 rials (32 cents) during the... -
November 30,2019Iran exports 20 tons of mushrooms daily, according to the chairman of the board of the Union of Mushroom Producers, Mohammad Hassan Afshar. -
November 29,2019With the aim of regulating the domestic market, the Ministry of Industries, Mining and Trade will enforce duties on tomato export as of Dec. 22, announced the director general of the ministry’s... -
November 24,2019Iran had over 16,000 hectares of greenhouses as of October, which indicates a 200% rise compared with the 8,008 hectares when President Hassan Rouhani first took office in August 2013, according to... -
November 23,2019East Azarbaijan Province exported agricultural products worth $220 million during the seven months of the current Iranian year (March 21-Oct. 22) to register a 48% growth compared with last year’s... -
November 20,2019The northern Gilan and Mazandaram provinces account for 71% of Iran’s rice production, according to figures released in a recent report published by the Statistical Center of Iran. The report... -
October 29,2019Iran traded 2.52 million tons of agrifood products worth 1.09 billion with the Eurasian Economic Union in the last Iranian year (March 2018-19), according to Shahrokh Shajari, director general of... -
October 27,2019This year’s tea harvest season has come to an end and the government purchased a total of 126,753 tons of green tea leaves from local farmers at 3.43 trillion rials ($30.66 million), the head of... -
October 27,2019Iran’s pomegranate production will reach 900,000 tons by the end of the current Iranian year (March 19, 2020), says Zahra Jalili Moqaddam, an official with the Agriculture Ministry. -
October 22,2019More than 2.5 million tons of agrifood products worth $1.95 million were exported from Iran during the first five months of the current Iranian year (March 21-Aug. 22). “This accounts for 10.97%...
