Overview

• Tehran’s agriculture ministry will dispatch a high-level team to Pakistan within two weeks to settle purchase arrangements for Pakistani corn.
• The step followed talks in Tehran between Pakistan’s commerce minister Jam Kamal Khan and Iran’s agriculture minister Gholamreza Nouri Ghezeljeh.
• Both sides reaffirmed implementing decisions of the Joint Committee on Agriculture Cooperation and facilitating agreed agricultural imports.
• The initiative advances outcomes of the 22nd Pakistan–Iran Joint Economic Commission in Tehran, which signed protocols and reaffirmed the $10 billion trade goal, with discussions highlighting barter trade, a potential FTA and border markets.
• Iran signaled interest in joint studies with Pakistan’s Seed Councils on developing disease‑resistant varieties, as Pakistan noted rising Iranian purchases of rice and meat.