Half of the world’s pistachio production and exports are in Iran
The second national pistachio festival was opened with the message of Mohammad Reza Eskandari, Minister of Jihad-e-Agriculture, in the Vahdat Hall of Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman.
Mohammad Reza Eskandari considered the holding of Pistachio Festival as an opportunity to coordinate and adopt principled methods to remove obstacles to the development of pistachio growth and export and announced that using the opinions of thinkers, professors and researchers, effective steps in adopting necessary measures for healthy pistachio production. Processing and improving its quality must be harvested.
The Minister of Jihad for Agriculture added: Due to the increasing use of chemical fertilizers, pesticides, preservatives and flavorings, the responsibility of food producers has become very important and sensitive in terms of observing the health aspects of consumers along with improving the quality of products.
Eskandari stated in his message: Satisfaction of consumers, observance of health rules and regulations The slogan of the International Food Commission Codex that People have the right to have healthy and good quality food should be applied to all agricultural products, especially export products. To be considered.
The supply of low-quality foodstuffs will damage the credibility of national and international trade for producers and will have a detrimental effect on consumer confidence over time, he said.
Dr. Taklouzadeh, the head of Kerman Jihad Agricultural Organization, also mentioned pistachio crop as green gold, which has a very long and historical history in the country and said: This crop covers an area of 431,431 hectares of orchards in the pistachio-rich provinces of the country. dedicated.
The head of Jihad Keshavarzi Organization added: This valuable product has a high economic value and plays an important role in the country’s non-oil exports, so that in recent years, improving the quality of the world’s competitive markets has narrowed the field for the supply of this product every day. Will not meet the needs of the global market.
Taklouzadeh said: Pistachio is one of the most important non-oil export goods. Iran has the first rank in the world both in terms of world trade and pistachio production, so that half of the world pistachio production and export belongs to Iran.
He stated that the general objectives of the National Pistachio Festival are to raise the level of knowledge, skills and awareness of users, exchange information and information in the fields of pistachio production and processing, explain the challenges, bottlenecks and processing problems of pistachio production and supply, create a suitable platform for constructive thoughts among researchers. , Experts, farmers and exporters, creating a suitable platform for the interaction of government agencies, education, private research and exploiters, introducing new technologies in related industries, introducing health and economic branches of pistachio production and providing awareness of farmers and industrialists .
