Azerbaijan, Baku, Oct.6/ Trend F.Milad/
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has reported that Iran's wheat and rice outputs increased respectively by 300,000 tons and 100,000 tons in 2012 agricultural season compared to the past year, the IRIB reported on Saturday.
Iran produced 14 million tons of wheat and 2.4 million tons of rice during the mentioned period, FAO said.
In August, Press TV quoted adviser to the minister of Agricultural Jihad, Javad Hosseini as saying that Iran is the 12th leading producer of wheat in the world.
Javad Hosseini said that the wheat yield will be sufficient for the domestic use.
Iran imported some 2.3 million tons of wheat from 13 countries during the first four months of the current calendar year, which began on March 20, the ISNA News Agency reported.
Switzerland was the major exporter of wheat to Iran with 604,000 tons of exports. Russia, Germany, the Netherlands, and Brazil ranked the next.
U.S., Azerbaijan, Austria, Uzbekistan, UAE, Turkmenistan, Singapore, and Kazakhstan also exported wheat to Iran during the mentioned period.