(MENAFN) The deputy Agriculture Jihad minister for planning and economic affairs, Abdolmahdi Bakhshandeh, said exports by the agriculture sector bring in close to 2 billion in five months same as 10.97 percent of the country's total non-oil overseas sales, IRNA reported.

He listed Iran's export destinations for that duration as Iraq, Afghanistan, the UAE, Pakistan, Russia, India, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Germany and a number of East Asian states.

The deputy minister also put Iran's imports of agricultural products and foodstuff in the same five-month time span at 10.04 million tons valued at USD5.62 billion, adding the country"s imports of such products in the same period amounted to 31.71 percent of its non-oil imports.

Weight-wise, Iran's five major agricultural products exported in the same time span were kitchen garden crops (739,000 tons), processed and fresh tomato (319,000 tons), onion and Persian shallot (110,000 tons), apple (61,000 tons) and date (20,000 tons), he said.

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