Iran Agriculture News

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…

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…

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,…

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-…

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).

Every day 3,000 tons of apples are exported from West Azarbaijan Province, according to the head of the provincial Agricultural Jihad Organization. “Our main export destinations are Afghanistan…

Iran has launched the production of vegetable seeds, according to the Agriculture Ministry’s caretaker, Abbas Keshavarz. “The Agriculture Ministry is carrying out this project in collaboration…

The agricultural mechanization coefficient in Iran presently stands at 1.8 horsepower per hectare.  The figure stood at 1.2 hp/ha when President Hassan Rouhabi first took office in August…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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.

Iran 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…

The 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…

Iran exports 20 tons of mushrooms daily, according to the chairman of the board of the Union of Mushroom Producers, Mohammad Hassan Afshar. “Iraq and Persian Gulf littoral states are the main…

With 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…

Iran 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…

East 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…

The 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…

Iran 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…

Iran’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. Provinces…