The consensus was reached in a meeting between Iran's Deputy
Agriculture Minister Mohammad Mehdi Borumandi and Secretary of India's
Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Ministry Manoj Ahuja in New Delhi.
Borumandi, traveled to New Delhi to hold talks on the
agricultural cooperation between Iran and India and met with his Indian
counterpart to review the latest status of bilateral cooperation in the field
of agriculture.
The officials also agreed to hold the first joint working
group on agricultural cooperation between the two countries in the near future.
In the meeting, Borumandi stressed Iran's readiness for
cooperation in various fields including horticultural products, medicinal
plants, combating plant pests, agricultural technologies, exchange of
professors and experts, and cooperation between research institutions of the
two countries.
He considered the removal of tariff barriers on agricultural
trade as a necessity for the future expansion of relations.
Manoj Ahuja, for his part, highlighted the cultural and
geographical affinities between the two nations and expressed his country's
readiness to develop agricultural relations with Iran.
Welcoming the fields proposed by the Iranian side for
cooperation, the Indian official announced that the ban on the exports of kiwi
to India, which had been temporarily prohibited since last year due to
quarantine considerations, has been lifted.
The trade between Iran and India reached US$510 million in
the first quarter of the current year, according to the data released by
India’s Ministry of Commerce and Industry.
According to the report, agricultural products and
especially rice had the largest share in India’s exports to Iran. Rice
accounted for 63% of the total volume of exports, while fruits with US$15
million, and tea with US$10 million ranked second and third.
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