Baku, Azerbaijan, June 18
By Elnur Baghishov - Trend:
This year, Iran is expecting to harvest over 200,000 tons of cotton, Masood Hakemi, an official with Iran's Agricultural Jihad Ministry, told ILNA, Trend reports.
In the current crop year, over 80,000 hectares of land have been allocated for cotton fields, Hakemi said.
He noted that in the last crop year, 2.4 tons of cotton were harvested from each hectare, and in total, 160,000 tons of cotton were harvested from the fields in Iran.