The USDA expects Iran’s wheat production to rise by 10% to14.5 mln mt this year.

Iran’s purchases of domestic wheat rise 32% year on year in 37 days to May 3 to 1 million metric tons.

Iran’s agriculture ministry will buy domestic wheat output at a guaranteed price of $0.3 per kilogram.

Iran’s agriculture ministry expects its wheat purchases from domestic farmers to increase to 8.5 mln mt.

Iran's GTC says it has spent nearly $2 billion on domestic wheat purchases over the past four months.

Iran spends nearly $350 million on buying more than 5 million tons of domestically-grown wheat.

The number of people displaced worldwide passed a record 89 million last year, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) says, warning that the intensification of a global food security crisis exacerbated by the Ukraine conflict could further increase that number.