TEHRAN (Iran News) – Over 3.5 million tons of agricultural products shapes Iran’s export to the neighboring states and other countries in the first 7 months of the current Iranian year (started on March 21), a senior official said. Iranian Deputy Agricultural Jihad Minister Abdolmahdi Bakhshandeh announced on Wednesday that $3 billion of agricultural products […]
TEHRAN (Iran News) – Over 3.5 million tons of agricultural products shapes Iran’s export to the neighboring states and other countries in the first 7 months of the current Iranian year (started on March 21), a senior official said.
Iranian Deputy Agricultural Jihad Minister Abdolmahdi Bakhshandeh announced on Wednesday that $3 billion of agricultural products have been exported during the first 7 months of the current Iranian year.
Iran has exported over 3.5 million tons of products to Iraq, Afghanistan, the UAE, Pakistan, Russia, India, Turkey, Vietnam, Turkmenistan as well as Germany, he added.
Cucurbits, tomatoes, onions, shallots, potatoes, apples, dairy products, pistachios along with saffron are among the products, Bakhshandeh stated.
In relevant remarks on Tuesday, another senior government official said that Iran had exported over 400,000 tons of agricultural products to the Eurasian states valued at over $300 million.
“Iran exported 405,000 tons of agricultural products worth $315 million to the Eurasian Union last year,” Director-General of Agriculture Ministry’s Export Promotion Bureau Shahrokh Shajari said.
He noted that some seven million tons of agricultural products and foodstuff valued at $6.41 billion were exported to various countries last year.
“Iran imported 20.5 million tons of agricultural products worth around $10.7 billion from different countries last year,” Shajari added.
Iran imported 2.12 tons of agricultural products and foodstuff worth $776 million, he said, noting that Iran imports 86.19 percent of its needed agricultural products from Russia.
Eurasia Economic Union was set up in 2014 and currently, Russia, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Belarus are members of the block.
- source : FNA, Iran News
