Iran food exports

EghtesadOnline: Ice cream has made its way to stand alongside Iran's top food exports. In fact, ice cream was Iran's second top exported food product in terms of value in the first six months of the current fiscal year (started March 21).

EghtesadOnline: Iran’s exports to Russia are slowly gaining momentum after a declining trend that saw the value of Iranian shipments to the northern neighbor declining from about half a billion dollars in the March 2012-13 fiscal year to a record low of 173 million in the fiscal 2015-16.

EghtesadOnline: Despite the fact that Iran’s food industry is mostly run by the private sector, all major decisions are made by the government, general-secretary of Iran Food Industries Associations said.

EghtesadOnline: Iran exported 1.178 million tons of food products worth $2.7 billion to more than 80 countries during the fiscal 2016-17, registering an 8% increase in value compared to the year before.

EghtesadOnline: Close to $2 billion worth of foodstuff were exported from Iran during the eight months to Nov. 21, 2017, registering a 20% increase compared with the similar period of last year, the director general of the Foodstuff, Pharmaceutical and Toiletries Industries Office with the Ministry of Industries, Mining and Trade announced.

EghtesadOnline: Iran’s exports in food and processing industries witnessed a 9.3% and 23.4% rise in value and volume respectively.

EghtesadOnline: Dairy products had the biggest share in Iran's food exports in the last Iranian year (ended March 20, 2017).