[caption id="attachment_13555" align="alignright" width="194"] Iran exports 171,119 tons of pistachio with 71% rise.[/caption]

TEHRAN: An official in Iranian Agriculture Ministry, said that Iran exported 171,119 tons of pistachio valued at over $1.5 billion in the first eleven months of the current Iranian calendar year, a 71 percent rise compared to the same period last year.

Ali Mohseni said Iran produced 235,000 tons of pistachio in the eleven-month period, showing 17 percent growth from 225,000 tons in the same period of time in previous year.

The country ranks first in pistachio exports in the world.

Iran exported $5.2 billion of food and agricultural products and imported $13.2 billion of the products in the previous Iranian calendar year, which ended on March 20, 2014, according to the Iranian Customs Administration statistics.

Food and agricultural trade accounted for 20.2 percent of the country’s total non-oil trade in the past Iranian calendar year.

By Customs Today