Iran’s agriculture ministry introduced on Saturday that the nation’s rice harvest will attain 2.7 million tonnes (metric tons) throughout the harvest season, which ends within the subsequent few weeks.
Sohrab Sohrabi, the ministry’s wheat and rice contractor, stated manufacturing will enhance by practically 26% in comparison with the 2021 harvest season.
Sohrabi stated rice is grown on about 750,000 hectares of land in Iran, with about 70% of manufacturing concentrated within the three northern provinces of Gilan, Mazandaran and Golestan.
He stated the primary purpose for this 12 months’s bumper rice harvest in Iran was the help offered by the federal government, together with the provision of genetically modified seeds to farmers, elevated mechanization within the sector, and higher use of fertilizers by farmers. Ta.
If home rice manufacturing will increase, Iran might considerably scale back imports from international locations resembling India and Pakistan.
The authorities has succeeded in lowering rice imports in recent times due to improved crop yields.
Rice imports to Iran amounted to roughly 1.054 billion metric tons (mt) equal, or greater than $1 billion, within the calendar 12 months ending in March, with India accounting for practically 70% of provides, adopted by Pakistan with 29%, adopted by Taiwan and Taiwan. It is provided by international locations resembling Thailand and Iraq. The relaxation is based on Iranian customs figures.
This comes after Iran imported roughly $1.2 billion value of rice in simply 4 months via July 2022.
Iran’s whole annual rice demand is roughly 3.5 million tons, with a lot of the provide coming from rice fields within the province situated on the Caspian Sea coast.
MA/Press TV