date:Jan 18, 2023
According to a senior official with the countrys Agriculture Ministry, Iran has exported 150,000 tons of citrus fruits valued at $57 million in the first nine months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21-December 21, 2022).
Zahra Jalili-Moqadam, the director-general of the Tropical and Semi-Tropical Fruits Office of the Ministry, put the countrys total citrus production in the current year at 5.6 million tons, of which 3.4 million tons were oranges. According to Jalili-Moqadam, in the