Jul 18, 2004, 7:45 PM

Date Exports Reduce 14%

TEHRAN July 18 (MNA) —- Manager of the Research Institute for dates and tropical fruits, Hossein Pejman said here Sunday that date exports has reduced 13.9% in the first quarter of the current year as compared with the same amount last year.

Pejman told the Mehr News Agency that date exports have dropped 40% worldwide, which is significantly higher than the amount of reduction in Iran.

He stated that experts have still not found a good reason for this worldwide decrease.

The manager announced that Iran’s share of universal date exports is %30 adding that Iran has exported $4,258,000 dates during this period.

MSK/HL/IS
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MNA

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