IRNA - Irans head of Strategic Council on Foreign Relations Kamal Kharazi says the Islamic Republic is looking for the ways to import rice from Pakistan directly, local media reported on Monday.
Iranians are fond of Pakistani basmati rice which is being imported through Dubai to the disadvantage of both Iranian consumers and Pakistani exporters, Kharazi ...
Financial Tribune - Corn and rice had the largest share of non-oil imports into Iran in terms of tonnage in the first month of the current Iranian year (started March 21.
During the period, 662,000 tons of corn worth $144 million were imported, accounting for 6.12% of the total weight of all imports, ISNA reported.
A total of 85,000 tons of rice ...
Domestic rice production is estimated to exceed 2.1 million tons in the current fiscal year that ends in March 2017, indicating 8% increase compared to last year, according to deputy minister of agriculture Abbas Keshavarz.
Genetically modified rice is neither produced in Iran nor imported into the country, he was quoted by Mehr News Agency as saying....
Tehran, July 5, IRNA Director General of Food and Drug Administration Reference Laboratory Hossein Rastegar said that Iranian rice is the best in the world.
Rastegar added that regarding the quality of the product, the amount of protein, its smell and its cooking, Iranian rice is better than imported ones.
On the quality of Iranian rice, he said ...
DUBAI, March 7 (Reuters) - Iran's oil export revenues are helping Indian rice exporters to claw back some of the lucrativebusinesslost to cross-border truckers inPakistanas a result of Western sanctions.
Indian rice exports direct to Iran have bounced back, thanks to shippers being paid up front in rupees from a huge pool of oil money owed to Iran ...
NEW DELHI--Indian traders likely have to adjust downward prices of rice shipments to Iran following a devaluation of the currency rial against the U.S. dollar over the past month, trade executives said Monday.
Iran receives rice exports from India in exchange for crude oil. As the rice exports to Iran and the crude-oil prices are quoted in U.S. dollars,...
Iranian parliamentarians are working on a plan that would require the government to ensure a sustained supply of essential goods to needy Iranians,Donya-e-Eqtesadreported.
Members of parliament yesterday approved the outline of a plan to distribute rice, cooking oil, meat and other foods to poor Iranians every three months, the Tehran-based newspaper ...