Official: Iran Ranks 13th in World in Production of Agricultural Science
“Iran's rank in scientific productions in the agricultural sector this year ascended from the 15th position to the 13th position at the international level,” Seyed Mojtaba Khayyam Nekouyi said.
He underlined the importance of scientific production in the agricultural sector, saying, “We expect the agricultural sector to become knowledge-based, and the most important component of knowledge-based development is the increase in scientific and technological production.”
Noting that 14 Iranian scientists in the agricultural field have been introduced among the world's 2% scientists in terms of scientific productions, Khayyam Nekouyi said, “At present Iran ranks first in scientific production in the Middle East.”
“We expect the growth of scientific and technological productions of universities in the agricultural sector to settle the problems,” he added.
Iran exported $1.998 billion worth of crops and farming products in the first five months of the current Iranian year (started on March 21), showing a 19% increase compared to the same period last year, an official said in September.
During the first five months of Iranian year, $1.998 billion worth of fishery, livestock, agricultural and food products were exported, said Rouhollah Latifi, the caretaker of the department of monitoring and foreign trade of the central organization for rural cooperative of Iran.
"Of this amount, $1.680 billion have been exported to 15 neighboring countries,” he added.
Latifi said that Iraq was the first export destination of Iran's food and agriculture products, with $729.607 million, which accounted for 37% of the total agricultural and farming exports.
He added that the United Arab Emirates, Russia, Pakistan and Afghanistan were the second to fifth export destinations in Iran's agricultural, food, livestock and fishery products in the first five months of the year.
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