EghtesadOnline: Iran’s flower and ornamental plants production has had an uptrend in recent years, going up from 2.33 billion stems in the fiscal 2015-16 to 3.31 billion stems in 2016-17 to register a 41% increase year-on-year.

EghtesadOnline: The global market for ornamental plants and flowers is worth a remarkable $20 billion per year, though Iran accounted for only $24 million of it in the last Iranian year (ended March 20, 2017), the director general of the Greenhouses, Medicinal Plants and Edible Mushrooms Affairs Office with the Ministry of Agriculture said.