Iran Agriculture News

Iran’s agricultural output is expected to reach 128 million tons by the end of the current fiscal year (March 2021), says Shahrokh Shajari, director general of the Agriculture Ministry's Export…

A total of 117,000 tons of watermelons were exported from Iran during the first two months of the current Iranian year (March 20-May 20) to register a 5.12% increase compared with the similar…

A total of 620,000 tons of tropical and subtropical fruits worth close to $500 million were exported from Iran during the last Iranian year (March 2019-20), according to the director general of…

The Ministry of Economy has proposed the abolition of the agriculture sector's tax exemption as part of its comprehensive Direct Tax Reform Bill.

As per the decision of Market Regulation Headquarters on June 4, customs duties on rice imports have decreased from 25% to 10%, Fars News Agency reported.

The agriculture sector’s share in generating Iran’s gross domestic product (GDP) increased from 3.1% in the fiscal 1977-78, the year before the Islamic Revolution, to 6.2% in 2017-18 when the…

Iran exported 679,510 tons of agricultural and food products worth about $336 million during the month to April 19 to register a 25.85% rise in tonnage and a 9.13% decline in value compared with…

As much as 500,000 tons of imported rice have piled up at customs terminals due to complications associated with the provision of foreign currency from the export earnings of non-oil products (…

The government will no longer allocate subsidized foreign currency at the rate of 42,000 rials per US dollar for rice imports, Fars News Agency quoted the head of Rice Importers Association,…

Mazandaran Province exported 342,000 tons of kiwis and oranges worth around $200 million in the last Iranian year that ended on March 19, 2020. According to a local official, Mehdi Golchoob,…

Agricultural yields are expected to increase by 3 million tons, thanks to the good rainfall recorded in the current Iranian year (started March 20).  Unlike last year, when downpours and…

Iran’s daily production of mushrooms stands at around 600 tons under normal circumstances, but due to the outbreak of Covid-19, production has decreased to 400 tons per day, according to the…

Domestic demand for wheat in Iran currently amounts to 12 million tons per year, according to CEO of the National Foundation of Elite Farmers Ali Khan-Mohammadi. Some 14 million tons of the…

A total of 106,000 tons of imported rice have undergone customs clearance since the beginning of the current Iranian year (March 20), according to the spokesman of the Islamic Republic of Iran…

The production of 135,000 tons of fresh tea leaves is estimated in Iran in the current fiscal year that started on March 20, to register a 10% increase compared with that of last year, says the…

Iran exported 7.1 million tons of agricultural and food products worth $5.82 billion in the last fiscal year that ended on March 19, 2020, to register a 2.34% rise in tonnage and 8.93% decline…

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…

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. According to Jahangiri, agricultural…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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,…

East Azarbaijan exported $334 million worth of agricultural products during the first 11 months of the current Iranian year (March 21, 2019-Feb. 19). According to Akbar Fat'hi, the head of East…

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…