Press TV - For the fourth year in a row, Irans wheat harvest is enough to make it self-sufficient in the strategic crop, an official was quoted as saying Tuesday. Better rainfall across Iran will offset the loss of crops from unprecedented flash flooding in some provinces in March, head of the government program to buy wheat from farmers Esmail ...

FNA - Iranian agricultural officials said that a bigger volume of wheat is expected to be harvested this year due to increase in rainfall in the 2019 water year, reassuring that the country will still stay self-sufficient for wheat. Iran has envisaged producing at least 13.5 tons of wheat during the current crop year, which started in late September,...

Financial Tribune- The Agriculture Ministry has set a wheat production target of 12.6 million tons in the next Iranian year (March 2017-18), an official with the ministry said. The target is part of the objectives set in the sixth five-year development plan (2017-22). Since mid-September, more than 5.78 million hectares of land have gone under ...

The wheat planting season began in mid September and from the 5.75 million hectares of land designated this year for wheat farming, so far 2.64 million hectares have gone under the cultivation of the staple crop, according to an official with the Ministry of Agriculture. This means close to 46% of this years wheat planting has been accomplished....