120K tons of greenhouse products exported in a year

Added on 02 August 2023

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120K tons of greenhouse products exported in a year

TEHRAN- As announced by a provincial official, 120,000 tons of greenhouse products were exported from Hormozgan province, in the south of Iran, during the past Iranian calendar year 1401 (ended on March 20).

Abbas Moayedi, the head of the province’s Agriculture Department, named bell peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers, and eggplants as the exported products.

These products were mostly exported to Persian Gulf countries, Eurasia, Russia and Central Asia, he stated.

In early July, the director of the Agriculture Ministry's Greenhouse Development Program announced that 23,000 hectares of lands are under greenhouse cultivation throughout the country.

Mehdi Lotfi-Zadeh also said that 150,000 hectares of new greenhouses are planned to be set up in the country during a five-year program based on the Seventh National Development Plan.

As stated by the deputy agriculture minister, the development of greenhouse cultivation is a major policy of the Agriculture Ministry.

In this regard, several projects have been defined and introduced to the banks, and as soon as the notification is made, the projects will receive facilities and their implementation will begin, the official added.

In recent years, the water crisis has caused serious challenges in Iran’s agriculture sector.

To solve this problem, several solutions, including the implementation of pressurized irrigation projects and greenhouse cultivation, have been emphasized by experts and officials in this sector.