Iran: Wheat, pillar of food security of the country / three periods of self-sufficiency in wheat production and export expectations in the last one year

According to Iran Student News Agency (ISNA), wheat is one of the oldest and most widely consumed crops in the world, so that wheat has been the most important source of food for humans since long ago and before humans realized the uses of other plants in terms of nutrition. The importance of wheat is more related to the physical and chemical properties of the materials that make up its grain. Wheat, 40% of the food industry and 36% of the calories of the people, "Abbas Keshavarz", the former Acting Minister of Agricultural Jihad, who was appointed as Acting Minister of Agricultural Jihad after the resignation of Mahmoud Hojjati and by a decree of Hassan Rouhani, in 2018, in a meeting with the members of the Central Council The National Wheat Growers Foundation of the country stated: "Wheat is the foundation and architect of Iran's agriculture. Wheat supplies more than 36% of people's calories and about 40% of the country's food industry depends on wheat. Except for the south of ...