“Despite recent floods and acute damage to wheat production in provinces like Khuzestan and Golestan, self-sufficiency in wheat production is also being repeated in current year, and production will increase in comparison with the previous year,” said the Ministry of Agriculture’s wheat project manager .

 Ismail Esfandiari, director of the agricultural ministry’s wheat plan, said: Flood damage to wheat production in the provinces of Khuzestan and Golestan is acute, but the overall increase in rainfall has had a positive effect on the production of this product in the country.

He added: despite the damage to wheat production in some provinces, but in the national sectors there is no concern about the supply or reduction of production; there is no wheat in the country; the production of wheat was expected to be excellent this year, and despite these floods, the wheat production remained in good condition.

The director of the wheat plan at the Ministry of Agriculture continued: We do not worry about the amount of wheat production for the current year, and we still believe that the production of this enclosure will increase in the country from next year, and the government will collect more wheat from farmers for a guaranteed purchase.

He stated that wheat production in dry lands this year is higher than in the previous year, adding that wheat production has not yet been investigated after the recent floods, but ultimately there is no problem in supplying the wheat needed by the country from domestic production.

Flooding in plain areas does not necessarily mean absolute damage

According to the Ministry of Agriculture’s wheat plan, referring to flood-affected wheat fields, flood plain landscaping is not a cause for total damage, and depends on the growth of wheat and the amount of water exhausted from the farm.

He said wheat production and the guarantee of wheat purchases this year have certainly increased since last year, and overall, the entire country has no problems with domestic supply and the situation is promising.

Expressing that this year wheat self-sufficiency is repeated in the country, Esfandyaripur said that the wheat cultivar is about 2 percent more than in the previous year, while on the other hand, due to rising rainfall, farms are in a favorable situation and only In the three provinces of Sistan and Baluchestan, Kerman and Yazd, the rainfall was less than normal, but in other provinces, the rainfall was higher than normal, and rainfall was effective with proper distribution.

He stressed that the rainfall is still higher in some provinces compared to the total rainfall of the past. The quality of the basic seed of wheat has also increased this year, and the level of supply of urea for wheat production has been 30% higher this year than last year.