The agreed purchase of surplus rice from farmers, including Tarem and Hashemi, started today.

According to the economic correspondent of Tasnim News Agency, the Jihad Agriculture Organization of Gilan province issued a statement and announced: "According to the coordination that the headquarters of the Ministry of Jihad Agriculture has made with the companies active in the field of rice trading, it is decided that these companies will sell rice of local varieties ( Tarem and Hashemi) to buy farmers. For information on how to trade and sell, refer to the province's agricultural Jihad service center.

Also, the public relations of Jihad Agriculture of Talesh city has announced in another announcement: "It informs the farmers and rice producers of Talesh city that farmers who have surplus rice to sell from Saturday, August 7, 1402 to register to sell their products to the centers Refer to agricultural jihad.

Therefore, the country's rice consumption report is about three million tons, of which about one million tons is imported annually.

In recent weeks, rice farmers have been complaining about the leftovers of their last year's crops on the eve of the harvest season.

Two days ago, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf said in the open court of the parliament in a lawsuit against the farmers whose products were left behind and not bought for him: "The ministries should not have started importing rice from the farmers instead of buying it."

He pointed out the excessive importation in the field of rice with the statement that about 1.7 million tons of additional imports have been made and criticized him harshly and said: Just today, several people, officials and representatives of Mazandaran called that the last year's crop is now in storage. It is farmers and this year's crop is being harvested.

Therefore, the rice harvest report usually starts from the second half of August in the northern cities of the country, which are the main rice producers of the country.