Iranian farmers produced 1.3 million tons of dates in the current Iranian calendar year (began on March 21, 2023) of which 350,000 tons worth $270 million have been exported, the head of National Date Association of Iran said.
According to Mohsen Rashid Farokhi, Iran is currently the world’s third-biggest producer of dates, IRNA reported.
Producing 1.8 million tons of dates per year, Egypt is the first producer of dates in the world, and Saudi Arabia and Iran are ranked second and third, the official said.
Last week, the spokesman of the International Relations and Trade Development Committee of Iran’s House of Industry.—Tehran Times
