Five-month exports of agro-products rise 19%
The head of the Department of Monitoring and Foreign Trade of the Central Organization for Rural Cooperatives (CORC) announced a 19% growth in the export of livestock, fisheries, agricultural and food products in the first five months of the current Iranian year.
Iran’s export of agricultural and food products from March 21 to August 22 registered a 3% rise in weight, and 19% rise in value, compared to the same period of last year, said Rouhollah Latifi, according to IRNA.
Of the total volume of products exported in this period, 2.86 million tons, valued at $1.68 billion, were exported to 15 neighboring states, he said.
The neighboring countries’ share of Iran’s exports of agricultural and food products stood at 90% in weight, and 80% in value, in the first five months of the previous Iranian year (March 21 to August 22, 2022), Latifi highlighted.
Iran exported 1.319 million tons of agricultural and food products to neighboring Iraq, valued at $729.6 million, meaning that Iraq was Iran’s first export market in the period.