877,000 Kg Of Iranian Medicinal Plants Exported

Iran exported medicinal plants of 877,000 Kg of Iranian which included Truffle mushrooms, Tragacanth, Viper's-buglosses, Caper, thyme and wild spinach.

Tehran, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 23rd Oct, 2018 ) :Iran exported medicinal plants of 877,000 Kg of Iranian which included Truffle mushrooms, Tragacanth, Viper's-buglosses, Caper, thyme and wild spinach.

this was stated by Mehdi Emad, on Tuesday, on the sidelines of the visit of medicinal herbs lands in the province of Semnan on Tuesday.

He said, "In the first six months of this year, about 15,000 kilograms of caper, 250,000 kilograms of mushrooms, 5,000 kilograms of thyme, 10,000 kilograms of wild spinach and 30,000 kilograms of Tragacanth were exported abroad.

Emad said that last year 1,337,000 kilograms of medicinal plants were exported from the country.

He said that last year about one million and 920,000 kilograms of herbs were harvested in the area of about400,000 hectares of rangelands of the country, which is remarkable.