Persimmon

Annual Production: 5600 tns.

Main Production Areas: Mazandaran, Gilan, Fars, Central, Isfahan, Semnan, Tehran, Gorgan, Ghazvin, and Khorasan provinces.

Main Varieties: Foyokaki, Hashiakaki, Hiakom and Iranian local varieties.

Annual Exports: 2280 tns.

Nutritional Values: It is rich in vitamins Bl, B2 PP, C and A, also calcium, iron, sodium, phosphorus, potassium and has considerable contents of protein, glucose and saccharine.

Fresh fruit.

The unripe fruit is used in tannery and paint industry and the fruit syrup has medicinal uses.

(Keshavarz 1998-1999)