EghtesadOnline: About 4.2 million tons of agricultural products worth $4.005 billion were exported from Iran during the nine months to Dec. 22, 2017, a deputy agriculture minister said.

EghtesadOnline: Iran exported some $4 billion worth of agricultural and agro processing industries’ products during the first eight months of the current fiscal year (March 21-Nov. 21), registering a 2.7% increase compared with the similar period of last year, the deputy head of Trade Promotion Organization of Iran said.

EghtesadOnline: In the budget bill proposed to the parliament by the administration of President Hassan Rouhani for the next Iranian year that starts on March 21, 2018, some 10 trillion rials ($238 million) have been allocated to provide incentives for agricultural exports, the spokesman of the parliament’s Agriculture, Water and Natural Resources Commission said.

EghtesadOnline: More than 2.52 million tons of agricultural products worth around $2.07 billion were exported from Iran during the first half of the current Iranian year (March 21-Sept. 22), a deputy agriculture minister said.

EghtesadOnline: Iran’s northwestern city of Astara exported 50,116 tons of agro products worth $44.53 million during the six months to Sept. 22.

EghtesadOnline: Less than 5 billion cubic meters of water are annually used in the cultivation of all of Iran’s exported agricultural products, a deputy agriculture minister said.

EghtesadOnline: More than 5.81 million tons of agricultural products worth close to $5.69 billion were exported from Iran in the last fiscal year that ended on March 20, registering a 21.8% and 3.6% growth in weight and value respectively compared with the previous year, a deputy agriculture minister said.

EghtesadOnline: Around 189,400 tons of agricultural and dairy products worth $312.7 million were exported from the northern province of Mazandaran in the last Iranian year (March 2016-17), registering a 4.9% and 6.6% decline in tonnage and value respectively compared with the previous year, the head of Mazandaran Agricultural Jihad Organization said.