Some $500 million worth of greenhouse crops were exported from Iran during the last Iranian year (March 2018-19), which shows a more than twofold increase compared with the previous year. The…
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Groundwater reserves are being depleted at an alarming rate because of poor management and excessive consumption in the agricultural sector.
Iran exported a total of 13,000 tons of tea worth $18 million during the first 10 months of the current Iranian year (March 21, 2018-Jan. 20).
Iran recorded an agrifood trade deficit of $2.8 billion in the first 10 months of the current Iranian year (March 21, 2018-Jan. 20), which shows a 10.5% improvement year-on-year. The…
A total of 46,000 tons of farmed shrimp have been produced in Iran since the beginning of the current Iranian year (March 21, 2018), the director general of Iran Fisheries Organization's Shrimp…
Iran produced 7,100 tons of olive oil since the beginning of the current Iranian year on March 21, Rahmatollah Parichehr, the manager of “Olive Project” implemented by the Agriculture Ministry’s…
Close to $1.15 billion worth of agricultural products were exported from the southern Khuzestan Province during the last Iranian year (March 2017-18) to register a threefold rise compared with…
Tehran Province has the largest share of area under greenhouse cultivation in Iran. According to Karim Zolfaqari, the head of Tehran Agricultural Jihad Organization, Tehran has 3,500 hectares…
Swarms of desert locusts have been spotted in the southern provinces of Iran, including Hormozgan, Khuzestan, Fars and Bushehr. Local agricultural authorities are ready to battle the…
Iran exported 950,000 tons of greenhouse products worth $350 million during the first nine months of the current Iranian year (March 21-Dec. 21), according to the CEO of Agricultural Parks…
Iran exported 5.06 million tons of agricultural and food products worth $4.76 billion during the first nine months of the current Iranian year (March 21-Dec. 21) to register a 15.3% growth in…
President Hassan Rouhani has sounded the alarm on the worsening water crisis saying his administration invested $11.5 billion in the water sector after he took office in 2013.
High customs duties, non-sustainability and the small scale of businesses, export companies and holdings are the three main handicaps facing Iran's agricultural exports to Russia, the head of…
Cotton is set to be the first genetically-modified crop authorized for cultivation in Iran.
Iran exported 4.58 million tons of agricultural and food products worth $4.57 billion during the first eight months of the current Iranian year (March 21-Nov. 21) to register a 7.9% growth in…
Maku Free Trade Zone in northwestern Iran will soon become the country’s major port of entry for importing livestock and meat, as per the preliminary agreement reached by the officials of FTZ…
About 420,000 tons of agricultural products cultivated in greenhouses worth 10 trillion rials ($98 million) are exported from Iran’s central Yazd Province every year.
Officials from the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization and Iran’s Forests, Range and Watershed Management Organization agreed to sign a memorandum of understanding on watershed…
Frost has inflicted losses amounting to 11 trillion rials ($107 million) on Tehran Province’s agriculture sector during the first eight months of the current Iranian year (March 21-Nov. 21).…
Climate change caused around 220 trillion rials (more than $1.97 billion) in damage to Iran’s agriculture during the first half of the current Iranian year (March 21-Sept. 22), according to the…
More than 4 million tons of agricultural and food products worth $3.72 billion were exported from Iran during the first seven months of the current Iranian year (March 21-Oct. 22) to register 23…
The "Iran-EU Seminar on Development of Agrifood Trade, Standards and Agricultural Cooperation" was held in Tehran for eliminating agrifood trade barriers and becoming familiar with each other’s…
The first phase of a plan to revive 550,000 hectares of land in border provinces of Khuzestan and Ilam was launched on Tuesday. Completed at a cost of $1.5 billion, the first phase covers 295,…
About 958,000 tons of wholly or semi-milled rice worth $985.4 million were imported into Iran during the first seven months of the current Iranian year (March 21-Oct. 22) to register a 12.54%…
More than 3.51 million tons of agricultural and food products worth $3.15 billion were exported from Iran during the first half of the current Iranian year (March 21-Sept. 22), registering a…
