TEHRAN – Spokesman of the Trade Promotion Commission of Iran’s House of Industry, Mine and Trade Rouhollah Latifi has said that the country exported $4.3 billion worth of food and agricultural products overseas in the nine months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21 to December 22, 2023).
Latifi added that Iran exported high-quality food and agricultural products to 130 countries in the nine months of the current Iranian calendar year, showing a 22% hike compared to the same period last year.
He went on to say that the country exported more than six million tons of fishery, animal, agricultural, horticultural and food products, valued at more than $4 billion, to the 130 countries, registering a 7.2 and 22 percent growth in weight and value respectively.
In this period, 68 percent of Iran’s food and agricultural products have been exported to five countries, namely Iraq, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Russia, Pakistan and Afghanistan, Latifi added.