Tehran, Moscow Highlight Further Agricultural Cooperation
TEHRAN (Dispatches) - Iran’s Ambassador to Moscow Kazzem Jalali and Deputy Russian Minister of Agriculture Sergey Lovich Levine have reviewed the ways to expand exchanges in the field of agricultural products and improve transportation infrastructure for transit of goods.
Jalali said that promoting volume of trade exchanges between the two countries has been stressed by top Iranian and Russian officials.
"Russia and Iran enjoy high capacities to develop cooperation in agricultural field,” he said, expressing Iranian firms’ readiness to collaborate in planting greenhouse products as well as beans and grains in Russia.
The two sides further discussed upgrading of transport infrastructure, investment and expansion of railroads and shipping fleet to set the ground for transit of cargos to the Persian Gulf markets.