Financial Tribune - A total of 50,309 tons of green tea leaves produced during the spring harvest have been purchased by the government from local farmers at 1.58 trillion rials ($12.39 million). This shows an 18% rise compared with the volume of purchases during the similar period of last year, according to the executive manager of Irans Tea Factories ...

Iran Review- The kettle contains tea, one of the most important cornerstones of Iranian culture, and the tea house is its centuries-old keeper. Tea production is a major industry in the Caspian Sea area and a large part of its economy. Before 1900, there was no tea production in Iran, but in 1895, an Iranian diplomat named Kashef Al Saltaneh decided ...

IFP - Iranian researchers have produced a new type of disposable teaspoons with probiotic properties as part of their project to promote the quality of Iranian herbal tea. Manager of Synergic Spoon Project, Behrouz Moradi, said the project is aimed at strengthening the immunity system of human body, a Farsi report by ISNA said. Scientific ...

Financial Tribune - Iran's Domestic tea production has registered a 73% increase so far this year (started March 21, 2017), compared with the corresponding period of last year, leading to a 12% decline in imports. According to Mohammad Vali Rouzbehan, the head of Tea Organization of Iran, tea farmers incomes have grown substantially by 234% during ...

Financial Tribune- In the current tea harvest season, the government purchased more than 139,000 tons of fresh tea leaves, worth 2.34 trillion rials (close to $62 million), from farmers, of which 31,200 tons of dried tea have been produced this year (March 2016-17). "Tea production has registered a 60% increase [compared to last year], marking a ...