EghtesadOnline: A total of 1,080 tons of honey worth 860 billion rials ($3 million) were exported from Iran during the current Iranian year’s first eight months (March 21-Nov. 21), according to the director of Agriculture Ministry’s Apiculture Expansion Project.

EghtesadOnline: Aregulation that mandates standards for honey production will come into effect in the current Iranian year (started March 20), in collaboration with the Institute of Standards and Industrial Research of Iran, according to the executive of the Agriculture Ministry’s “Apiculture Expansion Project”.

EghtesadOnline: Iran produces more than 80,000 tons of honey every year, Agricultural Ministry officials said during a ceremony held to unveil achievements in the beekeeping industry recently.