Iran Agriculture News

This 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…

More 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…

Mushroom production in Iran is predicted to reach 180,000 tons by the end of the current fiscal year (March 2019-20), says the chairman of the board of the Union of Mushroom Producers. Mohammad…

Iran is expected to achieve self-sufficiency in rice production in the current fiscal year (ending March 2020).

Iran exported agricultural products worth $5 billion in the first half of the current fiscal year (March 21-Sept. 22), around 50% of which, amounting over $2.5 billion, pertained to orchard…

A total of 111,818 tons of tea leaves have been purchased by the government from local farmers at 3.09 trillion rials ($26.98 million) in the first half of the current fiscal year (started March…

Colza cultivation has begun in Iranian provinces, according to the director of Agriculture Ministry’s “National Oilseed Project”. “Colza seeds, sufficient to cultivate 500,000 hectares of farms…

Rice production has exceeded 2.6 million tons this year, showing a rise of 13-18% compared with last year’s output, according to the secretary of Iran Rice Association. “Annual domestic demand…

A solid increase in agricultural production has been the main driver of economic growth registered in the first quarter of the current Iranian year (started March 21). Central Bank of Iran's…

Bank Keshavarzi Iran, the state-owned lender to the agriculture sector, plans to lend 520 trillion rials ($4.6 billion) to agriculture projects by next March, the bank CEO said. 

More than 98,479 tons of fresh tea leaves have so far been purchased by the government from local farmers for 2.78 trillion rials ($23.96 million), which shows a 15% rise compared with the…

Iran's International Rice Trade Center and Export Terminal was inaugurated in the city of Amol, located in the northern Mazandaran Province, on Aug. 21, in the presence of First Vice President…

Iran's apple production is expected to reach 4-4.5 million tons by the end of the current Iranian year (March 19, 2020), in view of the abundant rainfall experienced at the beginning of this…

Domestic rice production is expected to reach 2.5 million tons by the end of the current Iranian year (March 19, 2020), the director general of the Agriculture Ministry's Grains and Essential…

With more than 5.1 million tons of production, Iran ranks 13th among the world’s biggest producer of potatoes, Deputy Agriculture Minister Hossein Shirzad says, citing the 2019 data of the Food…

Olive production is estimated to reach 120,000 tons in the current fiscal year (started March 21) to register a 20% increase compared with last year's output, the executive manager of the…

Restrictions will be imposed on rice cultivation in Iranian provinces other than the two northern provinces of Gilan and Mazandaran. According to deputy agriculture minister for water and soil…

A total of 50,309 tons of green tea leaves produced during the spring harvest have been purchased by the government from local farmers at 1.58 trillion rials ($12.39 million). This shows an 18…

The Producer Price Index for the “agronomy, horticulture and traditional husbandry” group in the year to March 20, 2019, which marks the end of last Iranian year, increased by 47.8% compared…

Iran is estimated to have produced 2.8 million tons of barley during the fiscal 2018-19 (US local marketing year) to indicate a 9.67% decrease compared with the year before, the United States…

Iran is estimated to produce 14.5 million tons of wheat during the fiscal 2018-19 (US local marketing year), to indicate a 3.57% rise compared with the year before, the United States Department…

Iran recorded an agrifood trade deficit of $4.44 billion in the last Iranian year (March 2018-19), which shows a 5.7% improvement year-on-year.  More than 6.95 million tons of agricultural…

Land under cotton cultivation will increase by 20% to stand at 80,000 hectares in the current Iranian year (started March 21), the deputy agriculture minister said.

Locust swarms threaten 1.25 quadrillion rials ($9 billion) worth of agricultural products across six provinces in southern Iran, the head of Plant Protection Organization affiliated with the…

Around $80 billion worth of agricultural products are produced in Iran every year, $75 billion of which are consumed inside the country, the agriculture minister said. “Iran currently meets 85…