Iran Agriculture News

The number of agriculturists holding bachelor degrees hardly amounts to 1% of the total agriculturists in the country, lamented Mohsen Movahedian, member of Iran’s Agriculture and Natural…

The climatic change in the region of Lake Urmia and a consequent drought has taken its toll on numerous plots of land in Azarshahr – the capital of Azarshahr County, East Azerbaijan Province, IRNA…

Located in arid regions of Iran with minimal annual precipitation, Isfahan province has been struggling with drought for seven years. Nevertheless, it is obliged to exploit maximum capacity in…

The agricultural sector accounts for 10 percent of the Gross National Product (GNP), said Nematollah Rezai, an official with the presidential office for rural development. He made the remarks in a…

Iran’s gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 4 percent in the first half of the current Iranian calendar year, which began on March 21, compared with the similar period last year, according to…

The agriculture sector can act as an alternative for the oil sector, deputy minister of labor Eskandar Zand told Fars news agency on Wednesday. “Promoting agricultural exports can help bring the…

Some 24 trillion rials (about $892 million at official exchange rate) of investments are annually required to mechanize the agriculture sector, including horticulture, livestock, and poultry and…

Investment policies of President Hassan Rouhani and his economic team to improve agro-infrastructure, such as improvement of irrigation systems, will help Iran produce better quality grains, a…

The governments of Iran and Azerbaijan are preparing to sign a memorandum of understanding in the agricultural field including livestock trade, Minister of Industry, Mine and Trade Mohammad Reza…

Farmers’ involvement in the whole process of producing and marketing agricultural products can eliminate the need for middlemen, agriculture minister Mahmoud Hojjati said during the opening…

The pulse of life has started flowing once again in Zayandehrud River. Given the normally parched state of the river in the past few years and its name (which literally translates into life giver…

More than 90 percent of Bank Keshavarzi’s (Agri-Bank) facilities have been directed at the agriculture sector including farming, livestock, poultry, fisheries, forestry, farm mechanizations and…

Food security will be the most important issue globally in the next 20 years. Unfortunately, at present the country’s focus is on industrial development and agriculture sector has been neglected,…