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  • 08-12-20

    Iranian farmers produce 2.6M tons of rice in 2020

    (MENAFN)As Faramak Aziz-Karimi, the Director-General of the Agriculture Ministry's Grains and Essential Goods Department declared that, Iranian farmers produced 2.6 million tons of rice in this year in the Iranian calendar.

    According to Mehr News Agency, the stated production was cultivated in 800,000 hectares of land across the country.

    "Considering the level of cultivation this year, domestic production meets about 85 percent of the country's needs," he added, he put the country"s total yearly command for rice at three million tons.

    Mechanized harvesting achieved about 690,000 hectares of land, which demonstrates a 10 percent rise in comparison with the last year, declared the official.

    "Iran has become completely self-sufficient in rice production as it plans to cut up to two million tons of imports a year," stated In October 2019 Abdolmehdi Bakhshandeh the Deputy Agriculture Minister.

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