Greenhouse products in IRAN in 2019

A market of 600 million people for export of greenhouse
products

The director general of the Office of Greenhouses,
Ornamental Plants and Edible Mushrooms said: There is a market for our
greenhouse products of 600 million people in Iraq, Qatar, Armenia, Bulgaria,
Azerbaijan and Russia, but this capacity has not been used properly yet.

 Gholamreza Taghavi,
the Director General of the Office of Greenhouses, Ornamental Plants and Edible
Mushrooms of the Ministry of Jihad-Agriculture stated that: Given that we are a
country located in arid and semi-arid regions, one of the basic strategies to
ensure food security is to use methods that increase productivity, and
greenhouse was proposed as a way to increase productivity.

The official about the number of crops grown in greenhouses
said: At present, the number of products in the field of flowers and ornamental plants is over
200 products. He also added that: In the field of summer crops, 4 to 5 main
crops are cultivated, and in the vegetable debate, more than 30 types of crops
are now cultivated. Taghavi also mentioned that: It is interesting to know that
we have strawberries, fruit trees, tropical plant products, such as bananas,
ginger, turmeric, asparagus, pineapple and papaya, as new products.

He also talks about the export of greenhouse products, and
mentioned that: We export 40 million Euros annually in the field of flowers and
plants. He then added that:In the fields of flowers, plants, vegetables, we
have demands from our neighbors, especially countries such as Iraq, Qatar,
Armenia, Bulgaria, Azerbaijan and Russia.

Source of
the news: Public relations of the Ministry of Jihad-Agriculture 

Translated
by: F.KH