Iran exported 4.86 million tons of agricultural and food products worth $2.99 billion in the first eight months of the current Iranian year (March 21-Nov. 21), new data released by the Agriculture Ministry show. The figures indicate a decline of 11.02% in tonnage and 11.8% in value compared with last year's corresponding period. Pistachio topped ...

Press TV - Irans agriculture ministry has boosted its halal supervision system for imported meat by watching online operations at the slaughterhouses outside of the country. A senior ministry official said on Monday that cameras for online watching of slaughter practices had been installed in slaughterhouses in at least eight countries who export ...

Financial Tribune - The number of Iran's export markets for its agricultural products is shrinking by the day, Agriculture Ministrys caretaker, Abbas Keshavarz, has warned. "We have already lost the European markets and only Afghanistan, Iraq and Azerbaijan are currently the main customers of Irans agro products," he was quoted as saying by IRNA....

Tehran Times Irans Agriculture Ministry announced that 2,616 development and production projects worth 29.11 trillion rials (about $693 million) will be inaugurated across the country on the occasion of the Government Week (August 24-30). Inaugurating these projects is set to create more than 94,000 job opportunities across the country, IRIB reported....

ISNA | Amir Kholousi: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani held meeting with Mahmoud Hojjati, the Minister of Agriculture Jihad, and senior managers of the ministry in the capital Tehran on Monday.�    

Financial Tribune - Agriculture Minister Mahmoud Hojjati and President of Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture Gholamhossein Shafei signed a memorandum of understanding The deal was signed during the opening ceremony of the biennial Second Conference on Water Economy at ICCIMA's Tehran headquarters on Tuesday and Wednesday ...

Reuters- Iran reported two outbreaks of the highly contagious H5N8 bird flu virus at farms located in the Tehran region, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said on Monday, citing a report from the Iranian agriculture ministry. The outbreaks killed some 5,600 birds out of a total of nearly 283,500 on the farms, the OIE said in a report ...

An Iranian Agriculture Ministry official calls for a boost in the agricultural cooperation between Iran and Kazakhstan, urging joint efforts for the production of various grains. Houman Fathi, the head of Iranian Agricultural Jihad Ministrys department for international affairs, described cooperation in the production of crops such as wheat and ...

[caption id="attachment_13555" align="alignright" width="194"] Iran exports 171,119 tons of pistachio with 71% rise.[/caption] TEHRAN: An official in Iranian Agriculture Ministry, said that Iran exported 171,119 tons of pistachio valued at over $1.5 billion in the first eleven months of the current Iranian calendar year, a 71 percent rise compared ...