TEHRAN- Iranian farmers are expected to produce 2.7 million tons of rice during the current Iranian calendar year (started on March 20), according to an official familiar with the matter.

As IRIB reported, of this amount of production, 70 percent will be related to local cultivars and 30 percent will be high-yielding cultivars, Director of Agriculture Ministry’s Wheat and Rice Plan Sohrab Sohrabi said.

“This year, the production of white rice is expected to increase by 700,000 tons compared to the year 1400 (ended in March 2022).

Based on official statistics, nearly 750,000 hectares of Iran’s agricultural lands are under rice cultivation, of which 520,000 hectares are in Mazandaran, Gilan and Golestan provinces.

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