date:Sep 12, 2017
Every year, Iran loses about 8-12 thousand hectares of pistachio plantations due to lack of water and soil salinity, reports the head of the Iran Pistachio Association.
The acreage devoted to the cultivation of pistachios in Iran is currently about 350 thousand hectares, while during the 2000's this figure stood at over 400 thousand hectares, stated Mohsen Jalalpur.
The Kerman province, in south eastern Iran, is the largest producer of pistachios in the country. There was a time when the provi