Iran strikes agricultural deals with Mongolia, Russia

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Three agreements were signed on the opening day of Iran Expo 2024 between Iran’s southern province and Mongolia and Russia. Masoumeh Moayyedi, Coordinating Manager of Fars Province Agricultural Organization, announced the deals during a visit to the province's pavilion at the exhibition. Two memorandums of understanding (MoUs) were signed with Mongolia, one focusing on extraterritorial cultivation of agricultural products and the other on cooperation in farming and the red meat industr

May 1 202410:33

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

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: World 3rd biggest producer of pomegranate

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Iran World’s 3rd biggest producer of pomegranate A total of 1.2 million tons of pomegranates are expected tobe produced from around 91,000 hectares across the country by the end of thecurrent Iranian year (March 19, 2024), according to an Agriculture Ministryofficial. “Fars, Semnan, Yazd, Markazi,Khorasan Razavi, Isfahan, Lorestan, South Khorasan, Kerman and Mazandaran areIran’s main pomegranate cultivation hubs,” Zahra Jalili-Moqaddam was alsoquoted as saying. The offic

Oct 15 202315:52

Ancient qanats in Fars to be brought back to life

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Iran's Deputy Agriculture Minister Safdar Niazi said thegovernment has plans underway to repair qanats across the county of Eqlidlocated in the southern province of Fars. With funds allocated from the national budget and othersources of funding, qanats across Eqlid will be rehabilitated this year, Niazisaid on Friday. Elsewhere in his remarks, he said some 1,000 hectares of theprovince’s farmlands have been equipped with modern irrigation systems so far. Qanats are underground aqueducts fi

Oct 15 202315:49

Iran exporting agricultural products to nearly 200 countries, official says

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Iran exporting agricultural products to nearly 200countries, official says Iran is currently exporting its agricultural products tonearly 200 countries around the world, according to the country’s deputyagriculture minister for the horticulture affairs. “Annually, we export over $6 billionof agricultural products, of which $3 billion were allocated to horticulturalproducts”, Mohammad-Mehdi Boroumandi said. He added, “Some 200 countries are importing our agriculturalprodu

Oct 9 202321:34

Iran annual Pistachio exports fetch over 1 billion dollars official says

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Iran annual Pistachio exports fetch over $1b, official says Iran exports over $1 billion worth of pistachios annually,according to an official with the Agriculture Ministry. “Over 500,000 hectares of thecountry’s orchards are under pistachio cultivation,” Mohammad-Mehdi Boroumandi,the country’s deputy agriculture minister for horticulture affairs, said onMonday. Pistachio orchards, which account for 20% of Iran’s totalnumber of orchards, are mainly located in the p

Oct 4 202310:19