TEHRAN – Iranian farmers have managed to produce 25,856 tons of dry tea in the current Iranian calendar year (started on March 20), Head of Iran's Tea Organization (ITO) Habib Jahansaz said.

The official noted that so far 114,914 tons of fresh tea leaves have been purchased from the country’s tea farmers, from which the mentioned amount of dry tea has been produced, Mehr News Agency reported.

Tea harvest season in Iran starts in farmlands across the northern provinces of Gilan and Mazandaran in early May.

More than 55,000 families grow tea over 28,000 hectares of farmland in the two provinces, accounting for 90 percent of the country’s total tea production.

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