INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Rajab-Ali Qorbanzadeh, Agriculture Ministry is seriously pursuing a program for providing working capital at a rate of 10 to 12 percent for
representatives of the Agriculture Ministry after which primary agreements have been reached for the allocation of the mentioned
resources.Hopefully, the allocation of the mentioned facilities will begin in the next few days after Agriculture Ministry finalizes the
directive in this regard, Qorbanzadeh said.Details on the conditions for benefiting from these facilities will be released soon, according
to the official.He further noted that one trillion rials (about $3.9 million) of facilities with a 14-percent interest rate will also be
years and the Islamic Republic of Iran plans to further boost its annual fishery production to 714,000 tons in the current Iranian calendar
mentioned figure, 277,000 tons will be fishes bred in cages and 70,000 tons will be shrimps.Over the past three years, the efforts of the
Aquatics Production and Trade Union of Iran, and the non-governmental sector have led to the addition of markets in countries such as Oman
and Malaysia to Iran's target export markets in the field of the fishery.Iran exported 62,500 tons of fisheries in the first half of the
quality improvement, processing, and market development, said that live, frozen, and processed fisheries and aquatic products have been
exported to different countries in the first six months of the previous year.More than 27,000 tons of fish, 201 tons of ornamental fish,
8,900 tons of shrimp, 6,500 tons of canned fish, 1.1 tons of farmed caviar based on the country's customs statistics, and two tons of trout
markets, and also some new export destinations welcomed these products in the past three years; as new markets including China, South Korea,
and the Eurasian Union nations opened up for Iranian fishery products.EF/MA
