BAKU, Azerbaijan, October 16. The government of Iran has paid around 1.22 quadrillion rials (about $29 billion) to the wheat farmers who sold their crops under a guarantee scheme this season, which began on March 28, 2023, Executive Director of Iranian Government Trading Corporation (GTC), Saeed Rad said, Trend reports.
This is about 78 percent of the total value of more than 10.3 million tons of wheat that the government bought from the farmers for about 1.56 quadrillion rials (about $37 billion), the director noted.
He also mentioned that the wheat farmers received about 110 trillion rials (about $2.62 billion) from the government last week (October 7 through October 13).
Overall, 13 million tons of wheat are forecast to be harvested in Iran for the current Iranian year (March 21, 2023, through March 19, 2024). Of that amount, 8–8.5 million tons are estimated to be purchased by the Iranian Government Trading Corporation.
Meanwhile, last Iranian year (March 21, 2022, through March 20, 2023), about 11.5 million tons of wheat were harvested in the country, of which 7.5 million tons were purchased by the GTC.
Last year, the price of 1 kg of wheat was set at 115,000 rials (about $2.74), while 1 kg of wheat is set at 150,000 rials (about $3.57) for the current season.
In total, wheat was planted on 5.95 million hectares of land in Iran in the current season. Of this, 3.96 million hectares accounted for dry-farming land, while 1.99 million hectares were ordinary agricultural land.
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