| Manufacturing Industry and Agriculture |
In 1986,
statistics were taken on the Iranian industrial factories of all sizes. According to these
statistics about 33% of the larger factories were situated in the province of Tehran, 10%
in the province of Isfahan and 7% in the province of Khorassan, the rest in the other
provinces, in the following order:
1-
Tehran
2- Isfahan
3- Khorassan
4- East Azerbailan
5- The Central Province
6- Fars
7- Marrzandaran
8- Zanjan
9- Gilan
10-Khuzistan
The other provinces are insignificant as far as industrial activities are concerned.
In 1993 and 1994 Iran produced:
| 1993 | 1994 | |
| Busgs | 1,287 |
631 |
| Minibuses | 2.736 |
1,157 |
| Trucks | 3,643 |
2,953 |
| Passenger Cars | 39,511 |
52,811 |
| Light Trucks | 14,635 |
12,838 |
| Tractors | 6,347 |
5,081 |
| Jeeps & Station Wagons | 1,322 |
1,298 |
| Combines | 458 |
113 |
| Bulldozers, Loaders, Graders & Mechanical Shovels |
749 |
86 |
| Wagons | 381 |
180 |
| Auto Diesel Engines | 5,413 |
1,424 |
| Gearboxes | 3,089 |
3,069 |
| Machine Tools | 1,179 |
2,419 |
| Radiators (1) | 1,610 |
2,218 |
| Cement(3) | 16.3 |
16.8 |
| Glass (2) | 256.2 |
259.1 |
| Vehicle Tires (2) | 81.1 |
97.6 |
| Vegetable Oil (2) | 616.7 |
674.9 |
| Sugar and Cube Sugar (2) | 844.2 |
777.9 |
l) tons; 2) 1,000tons; 3) milliontons
The country's non-oil exports amounted to about 4,450 million dollars (at the official
rate of 1,750 rials per rJSD, current at the time), consisting of:
| Agricultural and Traditional Goods | US$ 1,859.9 m |
| Minerals | US$ 64.2 m |
| Industrial Goods US$ | US$ 1,061.0 m |
| Miscellaneous | US$ 242.1 m |
| Total | US$ 3,227.2 m* |
*Based on Chamberr of Commerce, Industries and Mines' statistics.
Of the total of 14 million hectares of land presently under
cultivatiotion, 48% is used for dry-farming, 41% for irrigation farming (various
irrigation methods) and 9.2% for orchards and plantations leg of pistachios, dates,
olives...).
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