Iran: What are the top provinces in olive production?

Published 2021년 3월 21일

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The article provides an overview of Iran's olive production and trade activities, as discussed by Javad Mir Arab Razi, the ministry's executive in charge of the olive project. The provinces leading in olive cultivation include Zanjan, Gilan, Qazvin, Fars, and Golestan, covering around 78,000 hectares, with 58,000 hectares being fertile. Despite this extensive area, the country experienced a 21% drop in production in the past year due to adverse weather conditions like frost and hot winds. Despite the production decline, Iran's exports of canned olives saw a 51% increase in the first nine months of the previous year. The country's olive oil production also decreased by 23%, with the annual consumption being met by domestic production and imports.

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In an interview with ISNA, Javad Mir Arab Razi stated that the highest amount of olive fruit production is done in Zanjan, Gilan, Qazvin, Fars and Golestan provinces: According to studies, olives are currently cultivated in 26 provinces of the country. He continued: the area under olive cultivation in 1399, according to the latest agricultural statistics, was about 78,000 hectares, of which 58,000 hectares are fertile and the rest are infertile and in the non-seed stage. The executor of the olive project of the Ministry of Jihad for Agriculture also pointed to the frost in the olive groves at the beginning of this year and said: "According to the latest statistics from the provinces, the production of this product in 1399 has decreased by about 21% compared to the same period last year." He said that Iran is in the ninth place in the world in the production of canned olives, referring to the export statistics of canned olives and said: in the first 9 months of last year, 1,200 ...

Source: Isna