<p></p><p>Iran exported $237 million of pistachio in the first five months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21-August 22), a 52 percent rise compared to the same period last year. Iran’s pistachio exports amounted to 28,000 tons in the 5-month period, showing 49 percent growth compared to the same period in the previous year, the ISNA news agency reported on Sunday.</p> <p>Iran exported $5.2 billion of food and agricultural products and imported $13.2 billion of the products in the previous Iranian calendar year, which ended on March 20, 2014, according to the Iranian Customs Administration statistics. Food and agricultural trade accounted for 20.2 percent of the country’s total non-oil trade in the past Iranian calendar year. </p><p> </p><br><p></p>