Iran: Forecast of production of 300 thousand tons of pistachios in the country

According to Isna, the Director General of Cold and Dry Fruits Office stated on the sidelines of the 7th Tehran International Agricultural Exhibition ifarm: It is estimated that out of the 300,000 tons of pistachio production this year, about 210,000 tons will be dry pistachios and the rest will be more pistachios. Dariush Salempour named the country's pistachio orchards as 650,000 hectares and said: 550,000 hectares of pistachio orchards are fertile. He added: Pistachio harvesting has started in the middle of September in major producing provinces such as Kerman, Razavi Khorasan, Yazd, Semnan, Sistan and Baluchistan, Fars, South Khorasan, Central, Qazvin, Qom and Tehran and continues until the end of October. The Director General of Cold and Dry Fruits Office said: This year, despite the heat of the summer, the power outage of water wells in pistachio orchards in some areas, water restrictions, and the effects of the reduction in the production of some orchards in some regions ...