Tehran, Iran, March. 2
By Kamyar Eghbalnejad – Trend:
Oman has proposed Iran to jointly produce various types of herbal teas, an Iranian official told Trend.
“Oman has proposed to create a joint factory for producing herbal tea. We discussed the issue during a recent visit to Oman,” Hossein Panahi, an Iranian exhibitor of hot beverages and correlated industries, told Trend.
He further added that the factory would produce various types of Iranian herbal tea.
Iranian administration has recently permitted Iran Tea Organization to export some part of stored expired tea, Mohammad Vali Rouzbehan, the organization’s head said.
Iran has recently exported 3,000 tons of its stored expired tea through tender for industrial uses, Rouzbehan said, the country’s media outlets reported.
There were about 30,000 tons of stored tea, remaining from 2000-2003 years, Rouzbehan said, adding that after exporting the recent cargo, the remaining 27,000 tons of expired tea is kept in sealed warehouses, which will be offered for export, gradually through tenders.
Tea is cultivated in Iran’s northern provinces of Gilan and Mazandaran where 50,000 families earn their living from tea farming on more than 25,000 hectares of fields.
Based on official statistics, Iran accounts for some four percent of the world's total tea consumption.
Some 31,000 tons of tea is produced in Iran per year, of which 7,500 tons is reportedly consumed in the domestic market.