TEHRAN, Jul. 04 (MNA) An official said Irans lemon production has climbed by eight percent as compared with the previous Iranian calendar year (ended March 20). The General Director of Tropical and Subtropical Fruits Department of Agriculture Ministry Abolghasem Hassanpour estimated that a total of 480 to 500 thousand tons of lemon will be produced ...

Iran is on course to assert its place as the worlds largest producer of pomegranates with one million metric tons of the crop this year, an Agriculture Ministry official says. Harvest is about to begin within a month over 62,000 hectares of land in the countrys central, southern and northeastern provinces. Last year, Iran produced about 940,000 ...