Food waste amounting to 25m tons costs Iran $5b each year
Mehdi Karimi Tafreshi added that the country can prevent food waste by developing processing and downstream industries, IRNA reported.
Some 30% of agricultural products in Iran are said to go to waste every year, costing the country’s economy over $5 billion per annum.
According to the Food and Agricultural Organization, 1.3 billion tons of food, mainly fruit, vegetables, fish and grains, are wasted globally every year and Iran is responsible for 2.7%, equal to about 35 million tons of the total sum. Iranians waste mostly bread, fruit, vegetables and rice.
source: financialtribune.com
