Financial Tribune - Irans agricultural production is expected to reach 128 million tons by the end of the current fiscal year (March 19) to witness a 6-million-ton increase compared with last years output, according to deputy agriculture minister for horticultural affairs. Mohammad Ali Tahmasebi was also quoted as saying by IRNA that horticultural ...

Financial Tribune - Close to 140,000 tons of kiwis worth $97 million were exported from Iran in the last Iranian year (ended March 20, 2019), deputy agriculture minister for horticultural affairs said. With around 12,400 hectares under cultivation and more than 362,000 tons of harvest per year, Iran is considered the worlds fourth biggest kiwi producer,...

Press TV - A senior official at Irans agriculture ministry says the country is increasing its cultivation area for saffron by 5,000 hectares a year as global demand for the Iranian red gold keeps surging. Ali Tahmasebi, a deputy to Irans minister of agriculture, told the state TV on Saturday that planting saffron was no longer restricted to the ...

IFP - Iran and Turkey have signed two agreements on promotion of mutual cooperation in veterinary and one on the development of beekeeping industry. The agreements were signed by Irans Deputy Minister of Agriculture Mohammad Ali Tahmasebi and Advisor to Turkeys Minister of Agriculture and Forest. The two officials signed the deals during ...

IRNA The deputy minister of agriculture jihad said on Sunday that Irans annual garden products has reached 22 million tons which exceed domestic needs. Addressing a press conference on the occasion of Government Week late Sunday, Mohammad Ali Tahmasebi added that garden products weighing 1,500,000 tons are exported, earning the country three billion ...