Kiwi Exports Resume

EghtesadOnline: The annual four-month ban on kiwi exports expired on Oct. 6 and shipments have resumed, according to the director general of Agrifood Exports Coordination Bureau with the Trade Promotion Organization of Iran.

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13 October 2020

Mahmoud Bazari also told Mehr News Agency that every year, the ban is imposed to prevent the export of unripe and low-quality kiwis that would give the Iranian fruit a bad reputation.

“Kiwi is one of our high-quality agricultural products, which is exported to 25 countries,” he said.

Latest data released by the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration show a total of 112,000 tons of kiwis worth $82 million were exported from Iran during the first 10 months of the last Iranian year (March 21, 2019-Jan. 20, 2020).

Iraq, Afghanistan and Central Asian countries are traditional customers of Iranian kiwis.

Mazandaran Province, located along the Caspian Sea coastline, is the country’s biggest producer of the fruit.