The director of Iranian Agriculture Ministry’s wheat and rice project has said the country’s farmers have cultivated rice in 650,000 hectares of land in 19 different provinces across the country
Over 33.97 billion cubic meters of water is stored behind the dams across Iran, indicating that 61 percent of the capacity of the country’s dams is full, according to the Iranian Energy Ministry data
The director of the Iranian Agriculture Ministry’s extraterritorial cultivation plan says the ministry has targeted two million hectares of extraterritorial cultivation in the 7th National Development Plan (2023-2027) to ensure food security.
Iran’s wheat production is expected to reach 13.5 million tons in the current crop year (September 2023-2024), an official with the Agriculture Ministry said