Azerbaijan, Baku, Feb.2/ Trend F.Milad
The garden products' output in Iran has increased by more than 4-fold in the past 34 years, Esma'eil Abbaspour, official in the Agricultural Jihad Ministry said on Saturday.
Iran currently produces some 118 million tons of garden products per year, Fars News Agency quoted Abbaspour as saying.
It is while 34 years ago Iran's garden products' output stood at 25 million tons, he added, noting that the country's population has been doubled in the past 34 years.
By the end of the Fifth Five-Year Economic Development Plan (March 2016), Iran's annual garden products' output should reach 300 million tons, he added.
Iran is the Middle East and North Africa 's greatest producer of garden products, and ranks 8th or 9th in the world, official in the Ministry of Agricultural Jihad said on Oct.22.
Iran has been ranked between 8th and 10th in global fruit production in different years. In the productions of pomegranates and pistachios Iran ranks first, in dates and cherries, 3rd, while it ranks 4th in the production of apples and walnuts, and, 7th in producing citrus fruits. 50 kinds of fruits are grown in Iran . The record for pomegranate production is 100 tons in a hectare of land, 146 ton for apples and 70 tons for oranges.