Press TV - Iranian agriculture authorities say output and cultivation area for rice both increased significantly over the last calendar year to satisfy a growing domestic demand for the staple. A senior official at the Iranian agriculture ministry (MAJ) said on Saturday that the total harvest of rice plant across Iran in the year ending late March ...

Financial Tribune - Due to good climatic conditions, it is estimated that rice production will increase 42% this year to reach between 2.9 million and 3 million tons, which will meet the entire domestic demand and there will be no need for imports Iran is expected to achieve self-sufficiency in rice production in the current fiscal year (ending ...

Financial Tribune - Rice production has exceeded 2.6 million tons this year, showing a rise of 13-18% compared with last years output, according to the secretary of Iran Rice Association. Annual domestic demand for rice stands at around 3 million tons and this years increased production means there will be less imports, Jamil Alizadeh Shayeq was ...

Financial Tribune - Domestic rice production is expected to reach 2.5 million tons by the end of the current Iranian year (March 19, 2020), the director general of the Agriculture Ministry's Grains and Essential Goods Department said. Faramak Aziz Karimi added that rice cultivation is now restricted to the two northern provinces of Gilan and Mazandaran,...

Press TV - Iran has sold 74 tonnes of rice to Canada, marking the first export of the crop since the Islamic Republic in 1979, state news agency IRNA has reported. The indica grade of type Tarom Hashemi was shipped in three consignments by the private sector, commercial director of Mazandaran Agriculture Jihad Organization Soleiman Hatamnejad ...

June 17,The Iran Project Head of the International Center for Central and West Asias Rice says Iran produces 61 percent of this areas rice, stressing that 54 percent of the total rice-rich area in this region belongs to the Islamic Republic. Saying that Central and West Asia region is increasingly demanding more rice, Abbas Shahdi Kumlehadded we ...

Financial Tribune - Some 76,500 tons of rice worth $52.9 million were imported by the Government Trading Corporation of Iran during the 11 months to February 18, indicating a 23.3% and 24.4% decline in tonnage and value respectively compared with the corresponding period of the previous year. GTC is a government-owned company specializing in the ...

The governments ban on rice imports, which has been in place since July 21, will be lifted as of November 21, the deputy head of Government Trading Corporation, Hassam Abbasi Maroufan as saying. The Iranian government imposes a ban on rice imports every year during the harvest season to support local farmers, Mehr News Agency. Domestic production ...

Domestic rice production is estimated to exceed 2.1 million tons in the current fiscal year that ends in March 2017, indicating 8% increase compared to last year, according to deputy minister of agriculture Abbas Keshavarz. Genetically modified rice is neither produced in Iran nor imported into the country, he was quoted by Mehr News Agency as saying....