LONDON, April 23 (IranMania) – Iran exported 136,000 tons of pistachios worth over $800 mln
Behrooz Gheibi, the Agriculture-Jihad Ministry’s director general for pistachio affairs, told ISNA that production has declined in the current year due to bad weather conditions.
He, however, rejected reports that inclement weather would have destroyed 70% of the crop this year, stressing [...]

LONDON, May 14 (IranMania) – Raisins generate a farm value ranging from $200 million to $300 million annually in the State of California.
With production capacity ranging from about 300,000 short tons to nearly 500,000 short tons (dried-weight basis) over the last 13 years, the United States has become the world’s largest producer of raisins and [...]

Iran-Symposium-Agriculture
The three-day Fourth International Pistachio and Almond Symposium will begin here on May 23, it was announced here on Wednesday.
The conference is held under the supervision of the International Society of Horticultural Science once every four years.
The three earlier symposiums were held in Turkey (1994), the US (1998) and Spain (2001).
The main objective of the [...]

TEHRAN – Iran’s annual export of pistachios hardly reaches 200,000 tons while good marketing strategies can give a major boost to this trade.
“We can increase our pistachio exports up by several million tons,” said Isa Kalantari, director of Iran’s House of Farmers. “Fortunately, Americans advertise their pistachios in global markets and, thus, we can easily [...]

Iranian Date Product
The date crop in Iran for all species (dried, semi-dried and fresh) during the farming year 1999-2000 was over one million tons. Iran shares 20 percent or so of the world date production and is the largest date producer in the world.
Iran produces 200,000 tons of dried date, 600,000 tons of semi-dried or [...]