Iran's pistachio exports to China have tripled! New season production is expected to increase to 300,000 tons

Salempour pointed out that the pistachio orchards in Iran cover 650,000 hectares, of which 550,000 hectares are in the fruiting period. The harvest of pistachios this year started in mid-September in the main producing areas, including Kerman, Khorasan Razavi, Yazd, Semnan, Sistan, Baluchestan, Fars, South Khorasan, Markazi, Qazvin, Qom and Tehran, and will continue until the end of October. He said that despite the high temperatures this summer, the power outages in the wells of pistachio orchards in some areas and the limited water supply in orchards in some areas and towns led to a reduction in production. However, the overall production situation is good because some newly added orchards have started to produce fruit. In addition, fruit farmers listened to the technical advice of agricultural experts, adopted their research results and preventive disaster reduction measures, optimized orchard management and adjusted the harvesting time, and the impact of high temperatures was ...