Iran Starts Purchasing Industrial Apple Cultivar to Support Farmers: Official
TEHRAN (Tasnim) - The Central Organization of Rural Cooperatives of Iran (CORC) has started purchasing the industrial apple cultivars from the 26th of September as part of the policy to support Iranian farmers and decreasing food wastage.
Esmail Ghaderifar, the chairperson of the CORC, said producing more than one million and three hundred metric tons of apple, the Iranian northwestern province of West Azerbaijan stands at the first rank of apple production hubs, nationwide.
"Exporting and marketing the over-preproduction apple has been always a big challenge for local farmers due to the intervention of middlemen. In a bid to resolve these problems, the CORC has equipped forty purchasing centers in the local area and succeeded to purchase more than three hundred metric tons of apple for industrial application," the CEO added.
Explaining the standard procedure of supporting the purchase of industrial apple cultivars, Ghaderifar asserted that the CORC's local branches are ready to purchase the extra volume of apple, even in the low amount, up to 22d of October,2021.
According to the official data, during the five last years, Iran stands at the 5th rank of ten top apple-producing countries in the world.