Baku, Azerbaijan, Oct. 29
By Elnur Baghishov - Trend:
For the first time in the past 40 years, Iran's Mazandaran Province exported 74 tons of high quality Tarom Hashemi rice to Canada, IRNA reported citing the Director for trade affairs of the Agricultural Organization of Mazandaran Province Suleyman Hatemnejad.
Mazandaran Province produces about one million ton of rice from 230,000 hectares of paddy fields, Hatemnejad said.
"The rice exported to Canada was sent in three batches by the private sector. The export of Mazandaran's quality rice to a country like Canada that implements special nutritional standards is a success for the province," he added.
Hatemnejad mentioned that an International Rice Trade Center has been established in Mazandaran's Amol city to promote the rice produced in the province.