Based on the said report, Iranian farmers managed to produce 14 million tons of wheat in the 2023 crop year, 800,000 tons more than the figure for the previous year in which the total production stood at 13.2 million tons.

According to USDA, Iran was the world’s 13th largest wheat producer in 2022.

The department has also predicted that Iran will produce 14 million tons of wheat in 2024, which will not change compared to 2023.

The increase in Iran’s wheat production during 2023 comes as the world’s total wheat production this year has decreased by about seven million tons to reach 782 million tons.

According to this report, Iran, which is the 18th most populous country in the world, has produced more wheat than many countries including Brazil and Egypt.

As reported, China was the largest producer of wheat in the world in 2023 and has produced more than 137 million tons of wheat this year, although this country’s production has also decreased by about 700,000 tons compared to the previous year.

The European Union with the production of 134 million tons and India with 110 million tons of wheat production are ranked second and third, respectively.

According to the U.S. Department for Agriculture, Iran imported 4.5 million tons of wheat in the last crop year, and this figure is expected to decrease to four million tons this year.

The department estimated Iran’s wheat reserves at the end of 2022 at 4.4 million tons and predicted that Iran would have the same amount of wheat reserves at the end of 2023.

Barley production in Iran is also expected to increase by seven percent in the current crop year to reach 3.2 million tons. Iran produced three million tons of barley last year.

Based on the report, Iran imported 2.2 million tons of barley last year, and it is predicted that 2.3 million tons of barley will also be imported into Iran this year.

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Speaking at the Iran-Kazakhstan Joint Trade Forum in Tehran, Sultanov reiterated that Kazakhstan is an important trade partner for Kazakhstan, adding that the bilateral trade between the two countries hit record high in 2019 s their trade volume reached $1b but the figure declined in 2020 due to some different reasons like the pandemic as their trade fell to $238m.

He went on to say that the trade between Iran and Kazakhstan last tear witnessed 85% rise last year, adding that the figure bounced back to $440m from $238m. He reiterated that 99% of Kazakhstan’s exports to Iran were wheat and cereals as wheat exports stood at $150m by itself.

Sultanov then stated that in the first four months of 2022, the trade exchange between the two states has grown by 43% and 70% of Kazakh companies export their products to Iran, adding that both countries can expand their trade and reaching the $3b trade mark is not a far-fetched target.

He reiterated that Kazakhstan is ready to increase its cereal exports to Iran due to recent Ukraine war, reiterating that Kazakhstan can at least increase volume of its trade with Iran to $1b at least in the agro field and cereal exports.

He then pointed to some useful agreements which were signed between the two states in recent months, saying that direct payments of the bills by Kazakhstan is a key step for broadening ties. He added that Kazakhstan can also extend the 14-day trade visas and it can help broadening the ties.

Sultanov also welcomed Iranians’ investment in Oktavo Port of Kazakhstan and said that in the first four months, Kazakhstan has received 499,000 tons of goods via this port which shows 4% drop comparing to the same period last year. He blamed the decline in the capacity of the port for this drop in delivery and expressed hope with attracting investment this port would develop.

He termed a logistic hob in the border areas a solution and exchange of information between business activists of the two countries will help the trade between Iran and Kazakhstan to expand.

Meanwhile in the forum, Head of Iran Chamber of Commerce Mr. Gholam-Hossein Shafei, for his part, pointed to the important position of Kazakhstan as one of the Central Asian countries in Iran’s foreign policy, adding that broadening of ties with Kazakhstan is important for Iran due to great resources and capabilities of the two countries in the fields like oil and gas, shipping in the Caspian Sea, petrochemical, metals, minerals, chemicals, construction materials, medicines and technical and engineering services.

Shafei also called for taking operational actions for increasing trade volume of the two states like easing visa issuance and added that Bandar Abbas-Turkmenistan-Kazakhstan Corridor is an opportunity for provision of required goods of the littoral states of this corridor and it connects Kazakhstan to other CIS, Persian Gulf and Southeast countries and therefore with activation of the corridor will help broadening trade of the countries in this long route.

Shafei went on to say that easing , marine transportation will reduce the final costs of the goods and will accelerate the transportation and therefore it needs port infrastructures of Iran and Kazakhstan to be strengthened and the ground for rail transport is reinforced.

He also blamed problem in money transfer and issuance of visas for traders as the main hurdles in way of developing trade ties between Ira and Kazakhstan and called for resolving them. He then pointed to some fields for cooperation between Iran and Kazakhstan like tourism, Nano and biotechnology, technical and engineering services and exports of industrial goods, reiterating that Iran can help Kazakhstan in construction of infrastructural projects.

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Esmaeil Esfandiarpour the manager of the Agricultural Jihad Ministry’s wheat production project and an advisor to the agriculture minister, added wheat harvest in the country has already begun in Bushehr Province (southern Iran) and Sistan and Baluchestan Province (southeastern Iran) concurrently, IRNA reported.

He added the crop’s harvest will soon begin in the provinces of Fars (southern Iran), Khuzestan (southwestern Iran) and Kerman (southern Iran), saying by April 19, wheat harvest will start in all areas of the country with an arid climate.

Putting at four and a half months the entire duration of wheat harvest in Iran, Esfandiarpour noted that harvest of the crop will start in Iranian regions with temperate and cold climates as of June 4 and August 5 respectively.

Expressing satisfaction with the favorable precipitation in the country (225 millimeters) since the beginning of the current agricultural year (that started on September 23, 2019), he hoped that this year would be an on-year.

Esfandiarpour said over six million hectares in the country are under wheat cultivation, of which over four million are dryland farms.

The official added 18,000 combine harvesters are ready to begin wheat harvest in the country.

Esfandiarpour stressed that wheat harvest cannot be stopped due to the coronavirus spread in the country as the crop is the chief ingredient of people’s main food.

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