Iran ranks third in pomegranate production in the world, exported $17,000 last year

According to Isna, quoted by the Ministry of Jihad and Agriculture, Mohammad Mehdi Bromandi said: India with three million tons and China with one million and 690 thousand tons are higher than Iran with about one million and 300 thousand tons of pomegranate production. The Deputy Minister of Jihad Agriculture introduced the diversity of Iranian pomegranate cultivars and the genetic reserves of this product in the country, more than 760 genotypes, as a healthy and organic product and said: having a relative advantage in production and high quality of the product produced with global marketability and the ability to export, create value. The addition of grade 2 and 3 products is one of the characteristics of pomegranate produced in Iran's Four Seasons Land. The possibility of creating employment in the deprived areas of the desert border, having nutritional value and medicinal properties, the possibility of high export and earning money, the high tolerance of this fruit against ...