BAKU, Azerbaijan, September 3. The government has paid 1.75 trillion rials (about $3 million) to tea producers since the beginning of the current Iranian year (March 21, 2025), Habib Jahansaz, the head of the Iran Tea Organization, told reporters, Trend reports.
Jahansaz indicated that the aggregate governmental liability for
tea acquisitions from agricultural producers under assured
frameworks totals 2.32 trillion rials (approximately $4 million),
signifying that 71 percent of the anticipated disbursements have
been executed.
The official articulated that from the onset of the fiscal year,
regulatory bodies have acquired 87,100 metric tons of tea foliage,
amounting to a financial outlay of 18.9 trillion rials
(approximately $33 million), culminating in the production of
19,600 metric tons of desiccated tea product.
“In aggregate, tea cultivators have been allocated 14 trillion
rials (approximately $24 million) to date, and efforts persist to
facilitate the distribution of the outstanding capital,” Jahansaz
elaborated.
Under the current Iranian year’s pricing scheme, first-grade tea leaves are purchased at 245,000 rials per kilogram (about $0.42), while second-grade leaves are purchased at 180,000 rials per kilogram (about $0.31).
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