Iran's guaranteed wheat purchases pass 7 million tonnes as the agriculture ministry reports output of 14.1 million tonnes

At a meeting of Iran's high council for crop farming held on Monday 27 July 2026, Majid Anjafi, deputy agriculture minister for crop affairs, said that on the basis of provincial reports this year's wheat output has reached 14.1 million tonnes. He added that the ministry's monitoring centre reports a figure above 15.5 million tonnes, which is still being verified, and that if confirmed it would break a 15 year record.

Anjafi said guaranteed wheat purchases passed 7 million tonnes on Monday 27 July 2026, that a further 17 trillion tomans of farmers' claims had been paid and 50 trillion tomans more was being processed. He said the first tranche of phosphate and potash fertiliser subsidy, worth 1,450 billion tomans, was paid into farmers' accounts over the previous two days.

He also put sugar output for the 1403 to 1404 crop year at 1.042 million tonnes and said grain maize production would rise this year from 317,000 tonnes to more than 1 million tonnes.