TEHRAN- Iran exported over 4.7 million tons of agricultural products worth $4.542 billion during the ten-month period ended on January 20, according to the deputy agriculture minister for planning and economic affairs.

Abdolhamid Bakhshandeh said the agricultural products accounted for 12.29 percent of the value and 4.5 percent of the weight of Iran’s non-oil exports during the mentioned time span, Mehr news agency reported on Saturday.

The official said that farm products accounted for the lion’s share (62.36 percent) of the agricultural products exported during the ten-month period, while garden products constituted 22.88 percent and 
livestock-poultry products accounted for 11.82 percent of the exports.

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