Financial Tribune- More than 1 million tons of pomegranates are estimated to be produced in the current Iranian year (started March 20) from 94,000 hectares of orchards allocated for the fruits cultivation in Iran, an official with the Ministry of Agriculture said. Domestic demand stands at over 900,000 tons per year and the remaining 100,000 tons ...

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Iran is on course to assert its place as the worlds largest producer of pomegranates with one million metric tons of the crop this year, an Agriculture Ministry official says. Harvest is about to begin within a month over 62,000 hectares of land in the countrys central, southern and northeastern provinces. Last year, Iran produced about 940,000 ...

[caption id="attachment_155778" align="alignright" width="158"] Iran makes one fourth of worlds pomegranate.[/caption] TEHRAN (ISNA)- Iran producing one fourth of the worlds pomegranate. 3.500.000 tons of pomegranate is produced in the world annually, 950.000 tons of which belong to Iran. European countries import 260.000 tons of pomegranate ...