Javan news agency’s interview with Mr. Peyman Mohsenkhah, CEO of Aftab Pardis Shamal Company, about the export of Iranian tea
August 23, 2024Iran potential for Export tea
In this article, we are going to examine the international markets of Iranian tea. According to available statistics, Iran annually harvests about 150 thousand tons of green tea leaves from farms and produces 32 thousand tons of tea, of which about 10 thousand tons are allocated for export. The tea harvesting time from the gardens starts from the beginning of May and ends at the end of September." 50% spring harvest, 30% summer harvest and 20% autumn harvest. Farmers deliver green tea leaves to the factories." Taken from the interview of Habib Jahansaz, head of the Iran Tea Organization, with the Iran Economic newspaper.
Grades of Iranian tea
As you know, tea in Iran is produced in the orthodox way. In the export phase, authentic Iranian tea is divided into various grades based on the foundation and structure, the most important of which are BOP family, OP family and BPF family.
Iran destination for export orthodox tea
According to the statistics of the Iranian Customs and Tea Organization, in 2023, Iran will export about 15 thousand tons of tea. In this statistic, 18.5 million dollars of foreign currency obtained from the export of Iranian tea to 27 countries of the world can be seen. Turkey, Russian Federation, Turkmenistan, India, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Afghanistan, Cyprus, Netherlands, Kyrgyzstan, Republic of Azerbaijan, Georgia, Germany, United Arab Emirates, Pakistan, Canada, Italy, Belarus, Qatar, Armenia, Indonesia, Kuwait, Poland, Bahrain and Australia are the export destinations of Iranian tea.
In the mentioned statistics, the name of the friendly and neighboring country Turkey can be seen, which has a share of 23% of the total volume of Iran's tea exports with 3159 tons. (Iranian Customs Organization)