Vice President of Hormozgan Jihad Agricultural Product Improvement in an interview with ISNA correspondent,

He expressed:

Hormozgan date palm exports have increased 12 percent since the beginning of the year.

Sayed Hassan Hosseini said: Since the beginning of the year, you have been exporting dates to piarom ، The world's most expensive and expensive dates abroad were 460 tons . piarom export dates, known as chocolate dates, are widely used in domestic and foreign markets due to their dryness and long-term storage capacity.

Hosseini added: Under cultivation, proper marketing and packaging quality are the main reasons for the increase in piarom dates exports. The 2,500-hectare piarom date palm groves in Hajiabad export 70 percent of its annual equivalent of 6,000 tons annually to the United Arab Emirates, Italy, Spain, France, Russia, Armenia, Tajikistan and Central Asia.

He said: Hajiabad city in the north of Hormozgan having hot and dry climate, is the only cultivated area of ​​piarom dates in Iran and Hormozgan.In Hormozgan, 50 dates are produced and The 10 types of Mardassang, Yellow, Mazafati, Crete, Denizi, Al Mehtari, Zarrak, Khayyou, Helili and piarom are exported.Iran is the second largest exporter of dates in the world after Tunisia

According to him, Hormozgan has 148,000 tonnes of 38,000 hectares of fourth-year production and third in cultivation. Harvesting dates in Hormozgan begin with Al Mahtari dates from June and end with piarom harvest in November. Per capita consumption in the country is 12 kg, in Hormozgan 14 and in the world 10 kg