According to the information center of the Ministry of Jihad-Agriculture, quoted by IRNA, Habi Jahansaz announced that: According to statistics, so far 111818 tons of green tea was purchased of which 56,590 tons consists grade 1, green leaf, and 55,223 tons was grade 2, green leaf.
He then added that: of this amount of green tea, about 25,158 tons of dried tea was extracted, which shows 5 percent increase compared with the same period last year.
The head of the country’s tea organization said that the value of the purchased green leaf was 309 billion tomans, and added that: The amount of claims paid to farmers was 253.7 billion tomans, which 82.7 percent of it was paid.
Translated by: F.KH
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