Financial Tribune - A total of 320,000 tons of pistachios have been produced in Iran since the beginning of the current Iranian year (March 21), an Agriculture Ministry official said.

Kerman Province is a top pistachio-producing province with 100,000 tons of output so far this year, followed by Khorasan Razavi, Yazd, Fars, South Khorasan, Semnan, Markazi and Qom,� Darab Hassani was also quoted as saying by ILNA.

Iran is the world�s top pistachio exporter, besides the US.

Hassani expects exports to exceed 150,000 tons by the end of the current fiscal year (March 19, 2020).

Iran�s annual domestic demand for pistachio amounts to 35,000-45,000 tons, accounting for 20% of the total output.

On average, Iran exports 80% of its total pistachio yields, of which 80% go to only 10 countries.

Germany, Afghanistan, the UAE, Bahrain, Jordan, Canada, China, the Czech Republic, India, Iraq, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan are the main buyers of Iranian pistachio.