Iran Records 23% Increase in Agro-Food Exports
“From the beginning of this year of 1402 (March 21, 2023) to the end of Month of Bahman (February 22), $5,593,399,727 worth of fisheries, livestock, dairy, agricultural, greenhouse, processed and canned products were exported to more than 130 countries, indicating a 23% compared to the same period,” Latifi said.
“The share of the exports of food and agricultural products in the total exports $44,890,125,000 was nearly 12.5%,” according to the Iranian official.
He added that Iraq was the top destination for Iran’s agro-food products in that 11-month period with purchasing $1.784 billion of those items. The Arab neighbor accounted for 32% of Iran’s total exports of food and agricultural products.
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) came in second place on the list of importers of Iran’s food and agricultural products with importing $675.783 million, followed by Russia with $464.572 million.
Pakistan ($447,774,000), Afghanistan ($383,491,000), India ($257,970,000), Turkey ($216,067,000), China ($215,970,000), Turkmenistan ($104,937,000), Azerbaijan (98,898,000) were the fourth to tenth other destinations for Iran’s food and agricultural products (crops), Latifi continued.
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