Annual Production: 120,000 tns.

Main Production Areas: Mazandaran, Gorgan.Tehran, Khorasan and

Fars provinces.

Main Varieties: Yellow Prunes, Tashkandi Dargazi, and Bokhara Japanease. Santa Rosa.

Annual Exports: 180 tns.

Nutritional Values: Rich in sugar. Carotenes, also vitamins B1, 82 and C and minerals like sodium, calcium, iron, magnesium and with a high content of potassium.

Forms of Consumption: Fresh and canned fruit. Jam, jelly, concentrates, fruit juice and dried fruit.

Industrial & medicinal: Bitter kernel and its oil are used for lubrication.