Oilseed

EghtesadOnline: More than 440,000 tons of oilseed are expected to be produced in Iran in the current fiscal year (started March 21) to register a 30% growth compared with last year’s output, an advisor to the agriculture minister said.

EghtesadOnline: A total of 550,000 hectares of farmlands are estimated to have gone under oilseed cultivation in the current crop year (Sept. 2020-21) to yield close to 900,000 tons of different oilseeds, registering a 50% year-on-year increase, according to director of the Agriculture Ministry’s “National Oilseed Project”.

EghtesadOnline: A total of 810,000 tons of vegetable oil were produced in Iran during the first half of the current Iranian year (March 20-Sept. 21), showing a 15% decline compared with the similar period of last year, according to the secretary of Iran’s Vegetable Oil Industries Guild Union.