TEHRAN (Iran News) – Ugandan Parliament Speaker Rebecca Kadaga, in a meeting with Iran Ambassador to the African country Seyed Morteza Mortazavi, called for widening mutual cooperation in the agriculture sector and asked Tehran to help Kampala with manufacturing agricultural machinery such as tractors. In the meeting held in Kampala with Mortazavi, Kadaga said that […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – The Iranian Central Organization for Rural Cooperatives (CORC) plans to adopt new measures of farming systems to optimize the use of natural resources in the drought-hit province of Sistan and Balouchestan in southeastern Iran, Deputy Minister of Agricultural Jihad Hossein Shirzad said. Shirzad, who is also the chief executive officer of […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iran has adopted special measures to extend support for its saffron farmers, according to Deputy Minister of Agricultural Jihad Hossein Shirzad said. Shirzad, who is also the head of Central Organization for Rural Cooperatives (CORC), said from the start of saffron harvesting in the current crop year (started in mid-October), the […]

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) – The cultivation area for kiwi in Iran is 12,400 hectares with an annual output of over 362,000 tons which make the country the 4th in world Kiwi production, Deputy Minister of Agriculture Mohammad Ali Tahmasebi announced on Tuesday. Tahmasebi said today that last local calendar year (March 21, 2018-March 20, 2019), […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) –FAO reaffirms its readiness to assist Iran in the sustainable management of soil Tehran, 03 December 2019 – FAO Representative to the Islamic Republic of Iran, Mr. Gerold Bödeker, said that the Organization is looking forward to further its collaboration with the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran in sustainable management […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iran’s production of fisheries will increase up to 15 percent in the year to March 2020, said a deputy head of Iran Fisheries Organization (IFO). Hossein Abdolhay, IFO’s deputy head for aquaculture, added in the year to March 2019, the country produced 1.26 tons of aquatics, IRNA reported. This figure showed […]

TEHRAN (Iran News)- The Southern province of Bushehr,  3therd top producer of date in Iran, has exported 17,000 tons of the fruit in the past 8.5 months since March 21, a local official said, adding that it is 34 percent rise in Iran’s Date exports, according to corresponding period in the last year. Some 17,000 […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iran’s seed production tops 6000 tons in the current Iranian calendar year (started March 21), according to the country’s deputy agriculture minister. Hossein Shirzad, who is also the chief executive officer of the Central Organization of Rural Cooperatives of Iran (CORC), said the country’s agro-industries corporations have succeeded in producing more […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – 70 tons of Iran’s saffron export, valued at $78 million during the first five months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21-August 22), according to an official in the Ministry of Agriculture. The delicate purple leaves of the Crocus sativus plant hold just three or four of the even more […]