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,...

IRNA Global pistachio market is dominated by Iran and the US who are in stiff competition to gain a bigger share of the market, said the head of Iran Pistachio Association. Mahmoud Abtahi told Iran Daily that although the US has managed to grab a larger share of the global pistachio market in recent years, Irans high quality product has been able ...

Financial Tribune | Ali Shirdelian: Iran and the US account for 85% of world production of pistachios (dry in-shell basis), Iran Pistachio Association announced. As the biggest pistachio producers in the world, the two countries have always had close rivalry throughout the years in production and exports. Iran and the US have switched places ...

TEHRAN (ISNA)- Irans pistachio export rose by seven times in the first month of Iranian calendar year, (started on March 21, 2015), rising by seven times comparing to similar period last year. Iran exported over 1000 tons pistachio for $8.3 per each kilo during the period while it sold 200 tons similar time last year. Irans pistachio exports ...

Amid an epochal drought with no end in sight, farmers in California's Central Valley have entered a veritable well-drilling arms race to capture water from fast-depleting aquifers, causing large swaths of land to sink and permanently reducing its ability to hold water. But none of that has reined in the pistachio industry's relentless expansion. Acreage ...

Iran is ready to return to the global commodities market, flooding it with fresh supplies and risking a slump in prices. Oil? Possibly, but theres a second industry that could be even more disrupted by a nuclear pact between Iran and the west: pistachio nuts. Iran has far more clout in the market for cocktail nibbles than it does in crude trading....

TEHRAN (INA)- Irans pistachio exports rose by 8.000 tons in the first eleven months of the last Iranian calendar year (started on March 21, 2014 and ended on March 21, 2015), comparing to similar period in the year before. Pistachio ranked 7th in the list of Irans exports last year, while it came in the 9th place in the year before. Iran sold ...

Iran ousted the US as the leading producer of pistachio nuts last year and reclaimed the position which it has long held to its credit, an official has said. Production of the nut surpassed 235,000 tonnes thanks to satisfactory precipitations and Irans implementation of development measures for better yield, an official with the agriculture ministry,...

Iranian and US pistachio output stood at the same level last year, but in the export market, Iran was in the lead, Asgaroladi said. Pistachio production last year was unprecedented for a decade, standing at 230,000 tons, of which up to 25,000 tons was used domestically, a 10 percent growth over previous years, Asadollah Asgaroladi, a member of the ...