Allocate 50% of the $ 1 billion export of the agricultural sector to pistachios

Of the $ 1 billion in exports, the country’s agricultural sector accounted for 50 percent last year.
Mojtaba Khosrotaj, Deputy Minister of Commerce in Rafsanjan, added: For this reason, the government is paying attention to increasing the quality of exported pistachios and developing its exports. In this regard, basic steps have been taken to establish packaging and processing units for pistachios in accordance with international standards.
He added: In the first six months of this year, the country’s pistachio exports increased by 108 percent in terms of weight and 141 percent in terms of value for the same period last year.
The Deputy Minister of Commerce added: In order for the Rafsanjan Pistachio Producers Cooperative, which is one of the most successful cooperatives in the country in the agricultural sector, to be able to purchase products from producers on time, 500 billion rials of bank facilities will be allocated by the government This amount should also increase by one thousand tons of pistachio farmers.

