TEHRAN (Press TV) -- Iran expects to harvest 2 million metric tons of rice in the current crop year thanks to a favorable climate and better yield, an official says.
Secretary of Iran’s Government Rice Association Jamil Alizadeh-Shayeq said Saturday the rice crop this year is also much better in quality than before. Better rainfall and sunny days checked blast, a devastating
fungal disease of rice, he said. "Our projections about the quality and volume of the rice yield have materialized,” Alizadeh-Shayeq said. Iran’s annual rice consumption is put around 2.9 million metric tons, 45% of
which is imported.
