BAKU, Azerbaijan, Nov. 24
By Elnur Baghishov – Trend:
The apple production in Iran is forecasted to be increased by 3 percent in the current Iranian year (from March 20, 2020, to March 21, 2021) compared to last Iranian year, an official of Iran’s Ministry of Agriculture Jihad, Darab Hassani said, Trend reports citing the ministry.
According to Hassani, it is estimated that Iran will produce about 4.12 million tons of apples in the current Iranian year.
“Furthermore, about 1.3 million tons of apples are planned to be stored in the current Iranian year. Some part of the stored apples is exported later. Thus, about 740,000 tons of stored apples were exported in the last Iranian year (from March 21, 2019, to March 20, 2020),” he added.
The official stressed that about 750,000 tons of apples will be stored in Iran's West Azerbaijan Province and 320,000 tons in East Azerbaijan Province in the current Iranian year.
Hassani noted that there are about 251,000 hectares of apple orchards in Iran. About 230,000 hectares of these orchards are fruitful.
“West Azerbaijan, East Azerbaijan, Fars, Tehran, Isfahan, Razavi Khorasan, and Ardabil provinces are the main provinces in Iran where apple orchards are located,” he said.
