Ardebil province exports 90% of greenhouse products

A total of 25,000 tons of agricultural products cultivated
in greenhouses were exported from Ardebil province during the last Iranian year
(ended on March 20), accounting for 90% of total greenhouse production in the
northwestern Iranian province.

“Our main export destinations were
Russia and the littoral countries of the Persian Gulf,” the head of Ardebil
Agricultural Towns Company, Fazael Basiri, was quoted as saying by IRNA. 

According to Nader Taqizadeh, the head of the province’s
Agriculture Department, 1,704 hectares of land are under greenhouse cultivation
in Ardebil province. 

He put the volume of agricultural products, including
pepper, tomato, cucumber, as well as rose, produced in the greenhouses of
Ardebil province at 10,000 tons in the past Iranian calendar year.