Minister issues message on National Wheat Day

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Iranian Minister of Agriculture Mohammad Ali Nikbakht, in a message marking the National Day of Wheat and Bread, called the strategic grain wheat and food security a lever of balance of power in international relations. Following is the full text of the message In the name of God, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful National Wheat and Bread Day is a commemoration of efforts from the farm to the table; this path is marked by the labor of the farmer and the pain of the germination of the see

Apr 26 202422:26

Minister issues message on National Wheat Day

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Minister issues message on National Wheat Day Iranian Minister of Agriculture Mohammad Ali Nikbakht, in a message marking the National Day of Wheat and Bread, called the strategic grain wheat and food security a lever of balance of power in international relations. Following is the full text of the message In the name of God, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful National Wheat and Bread Day is a commemoration of efforts from the farm to the table; this path is marked by the labor of the f

Apr 22 202420:45

Timely spraying of farms essential to combat wheat diseases, official stresses

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Timely spraying of farms essential to combat wheat diseases, official stresses Iranian Deputy Agriculture Minister Alireza Mohajer emphasized the need for timely spraying of farms to combat wheat diseases. "Some of our farms in warm and temperate regions such as Khuzestan, Ilam, and especially the provinces of Golestan, Mazandaran and North Khorasan have been attacked by yellow rust disease and various wheat diseases,” Mohajer said. Emphasizing the need for the timely spraying of farms,

Apr 7 202402:47

Iran, China join forces to combat desertification, climate change

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Iran,China join forces to combat desertification, climate change Iran andChina are launching a joint research center to tackle desertification andclimate change challenges, focusing on managing runoff and floods. Theinitiative was announced by Ataollah Ebrahimi, head of Iran's Soil Conservationand Watershed Management Research Institute.Thiscollaboration stems from a memorandum of understanding signed last year, aimingto exchange expertise in watershed management and aquifer protection, he said

Feb 4 202407:53

Iran expected to produce 700,000 tons of sugar from sugarcane this year

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Some 650,000 to 700,000 tons of sugar will be produced from sugarcane this year, an official with Iran’s Agriculture Ministry said. According to Peyman Hesadi, the director of the Agriculture Ministry’s sugar plants project, the total area under sugarcane cultivation across Iran this year is 90,000 hectares, predicting that 6.5 to 7 million tons of sugarcane are estimated to be produced. He added that so far, 45,000 hectares of sugarcane have been harvested from the fields. Hesadi sa

Jan 28 202409:20

Area under wheat cultivation in Iran reaches 6 million hectares

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Area under wheat cultivation in Iran reaches 6 millionhectares The head of the Wheat Project at the Iranian Ministry ofAgriculture announced that the area under wheat cultivation across the countryhas reached 6 million hectares. According to the Ministry of Agriculture's website, SohrabSohrabi said in an interview with the ministry's news agency that, based on thelatest reports from provinces, since the start of the crop year two millionhectares have gone under wheat cultivation (artificial rain

Jan 9 202411:44

Iran export of edible mushrooms on rise

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Iran’s export of edible mushrooms on rise The value of mushrooms exported from Iran in the first sixmonths of the current Iranian calendar year stands at $2.1 million, the head ofthe Greenhouse Affairs Office of the Iranian Ministry of Agriculture announced.According to the statistics of the Islamic Republic of IranCustoms Administration (IRICA), 1,703 tons of edible mushrooms, valued at 42.1million, were exported from the country abroad from March 21 to September 22,2023, Elham Fattahifa

Nov 4 202316:22

Spring cultivation expected to yield 4.4m tons of sugar beet, official says

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Spring cultivation expected to yield 4.4m tons of sugarbeet, official says A total of 4.4 million tons of sugar beet are estimated tobe produced from spring cultivation carried out on 79,000 hectares ofplantations across the country, according to an official with Iran’s Ministryof Agriculture.“So far, close to 1.4 million tonsof sugar beet grown in spring direct seeding have been harvested, showing aincrease of 48 percent compared to the same period last year” Peyman Hesadi was

Oct 25 202317:25

Iran inaugurates over 200 projects in nomadic areas in Government Week

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Iran inaugurates over 200projects in nomadic areas in ‘Government Week’On the occasion ofGovernment Week (August 24-30), hundreds of development projects in differentsectors including water and agriculture are set to go operational across Iran,including 210 projects in nomadic areas. 210 projects- valued at2,200 trillion rials- in nomadic areas are among the projects scheduled by theAgriculture Ministry to be inaugurated across the country in the mentionedweek.Water transfer projects

Sep 4 202315:16

Iran sets up major disease-free facility to improve shrimp brand

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Iran sets up major disease-free facility to improve shrimpbrand The Iranian Ministry of Agriculture has launched a majorproject in the southern Bushehr Province to mass produce disease-resistantshrimp, the head of Iran Fishery Organization (IFO) announced. The construction of the facility has begun with aninvestment of $13.5 million, Hossein Hosseini said last week. He added that the plan implementation will lead toself-sufficiency in shrimp production, thereby cutting imports. Also, it willcrea

Aug 30 202312:11