| Make foodmate.com your Homepage | Wap | Archiver
Advanced Top
Search Promotion
Search Promotion
Post New Products
Post New Products
Business Center
Business Center
 
Current Position:Home » News » General News » Topic

Iran government to raise $21m to aid citrus farmers

Zoom in font  Zoom out font Published: 2017-03-07
Core Tip: The government says it plans to grant 800 billion rials (over $21 million) in aid to farmers whose orchards were damaged this crop year by frost in November.
The government says it plans to grant 800 billion rials (over $21 million) in aid to farmers whose orchards were damaged this crop year by frost in November.

“Farmers will receive the grant before the year end (March 20). Between 250,000 and 300,000 tons of oranges and about 90,000 tons of kiwis were lost,” the head of Mazandaran Agricultural Jihad Organization, Delavar Heydarpour, has been quoted as saying. “About 80,000 hectares of farms were affected by the frost, while only 6,000 to 7,000 hectares or around 8% of these farms were insured,” he added.

Close to 340 tons of citrus fruits worth over $135,300 were exported from Mazandaran Province during the 11 months to February 18, registering an 87% and 60% growth in tonnage and value respectively, IRNA reported.
 
keywords: citrus
 
[ News search ]  [ ]  [ Notify friends ]  [ Print ]  [ Close ]

 
 
0 in all [view all]  Related Comments

 
Hot Graphics
Hot News
Hot Topics
 
 
Processed in 0.061 second(s), 16 queries, Memory 0.85 M
Powered by Global FoodMate
Message Center(0)