Exports of Dates Rise

EghtesadOnline: Over 171,000 tons of dates worth $167 million were exported from Iran during the nine months to Dec. 22, registering an 18% and 23% growth in value and weight respectively compared with last year’s corresponding period, Deputy Agriculture Minister Abdolmehdi Bakhshandeh said.

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25 January 2018

Date production reached 1.2 million tons in the last Iranian year (March 2016-17), making Iran the second largest cultivator of the crop in the world, after Egypt. Iran was the world’s top exporter in that year, IRNA reported.