BAKU, Azerbaijan, June 3
By Elnur Baghishov – Trend:
More than 10 tons of caviar is harvested annually at 140 fish farms in Iran, Iranian Minister of Agriculture Jihad Kazem Khavazi said, Trend reports citing IRNA.
He made the remark in an online event dedicated to the launch of agricultural facilities in Iran today on June 3.
The minister emphasized that however, when the current government came to power (2013), annual caviar production in Iran was less than 1 ton.
Khavazi added that if the annual production of fishery products in Iran was 885,000 tons in 2013, this figure reached 1.23 million tons in the last Iranian year (from March 20, 2020 through March 20, 2021).
“In addition, the area of drainage in Iran was 78,000 hectares over the last Iranian year. The drainage was installed on 20,000 hectares of land in Golestan Province today. And thus, the area of drainage in the province has reached a total of 280,000 hectares. With the installation of drainage, the income of farmers in the province will increase 1.6 times,” he said.
The minister noted that at the same time, 21,800 hectares of greenhouses were put into operation in Iran by the end of last Iranian year. While at the beginning of last Iranian year, the area of greenhouses in Iran was about 8,000 hectares. In the near future, more 25,000 hectares of greenhouses in western Iran will be put into operation.
As reported, a total of 75.2 trillion rials (about $1.79 billion) have been spent on all agricultural facilities put into operation today, and thus, 15,800 people have been employed.
