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April 26,2020
The Agriculture Ministry has temporarily lifted restrictions on rice cultivation in the country after it had announced plans to gradually limit and ultimately ban the production of this staple crop...
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April 25,2020
The government permitted the import of 3 million tons of wheat in January, 1.6 million tons of which have so far been unloaded in Iranian ports.
Some 400,000 tons have also arrived and are ready...
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April 25,2020
The agriculture sector accounts for 19% of Iran’s total employment, which are equivalent to four million jobs, says First Vice President Esh'aq Jahangiri.
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April 24,2020
The novel coronavirus has inflicted losses worth 39,500 billion rials ($243 million) on the consumption and export sectors of Iran’s food and agriculture industry, a report by the research arm of...
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April 11,2020
More than $1.4 billion worth of vegetables were exported from Iran during the last fiscal year (ended March 19, 2020), according to the director general of Agriculture Ministry’s Fodder and...
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April 07,2020
The government has set guaranteed prices for tea purchases at 46,000 rials ($0.28) for top-quality tea leaves and 33,000 rials ($0.20) for other varieties of leaves for this year’s harvest, which...
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April 05,2020
After a new round of negotiations, the government has reformed the prices of guaranteed wheat purchases, based on which each kilo of common and durum wheat will be purchased at the rates of 25,000...
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March 17,2020
East Azarbaijan exported $334 million worth of agricultural products during the first 11 months of the current Iranian year (March 21, 2019-Feb. 19).
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March 16,2020
Iran exported 6.34 million tons of agricultural and food products worth $5.2 billion during the first 11 months of the current Iranian year (March 21, 2019-Feb. 19), according to Shahrokh Shajari,...
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March 15,2020
Iran’s wheat output is forecast to reach close to 15.36 million tons by the year 2028 from 13.57 million tons in 2019, registering an annual growth of 2.7% year-on-year.
The forecast was made in a...
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March 09,2020
The private sector can purchase wheat from local farmers at prices negotiated between the two sides, the Ministry of Industries, Mining and Trade announced at the request of Agriculture Ministry....
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February 05,2020
Iran’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...
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February 02,2020
Power 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-...
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January 31,2020
A 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...
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January 27,2020
Every day 3,000 tons of apples are exported from West Azarbaijan Province, according to the head of the provincial Agricultural Jihad Organization.
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January 22,2020
Iran has launched the production of vegetable seeds, according to the Agriculture Ministry’s caretaker, Abbas Keshavarz.
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January 15,2020
The agricultural mechanization coefficient in Iran presently stands at 1.8 horsepower per hectare.
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January 14,2020
Land 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...
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January 07,2020
Iran’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...
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December 31,2019
A 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...
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December 30,2019
A 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...
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December 29,2019
A 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...
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December 18,2019
The 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...
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December 16,2019
Iran’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...
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December 07,2019
A 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.
April 26,2020The Agriculture Ministry has temporarily lifted restrictions on rice cultivation in the country after it had announced plans to gradually limit and ultimately ban the production of this staple crop...
