Production of 19% of the country’s grapes in Fars
The head of Fars Jihad Agricultural Organization, stating that Fars province is the first in the country, both in production and in the area under grape cultivation, added: Fars with a production of more than 605 thousand tons, equal to 19% of the country’s total grapes and 24% Cultivation is the first place in the country’s cultivation area.
Every year, about 20,000 tons of convertible grapes are allocated for raisin processing, Kherad said.
He added: This year, raisin exports from Fars to abroad have increased 15 times.
Since the beginning of this year, more than 1,700 tons of raisins have been exported from Fars to abroad.
Kherad estimated the value of this export at more than five and a half million dollars and added: this amount of raisins was exported to the countries of the Eastern Bloc, Iraq and the Persian Gulf.