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Why is pistachio the new Argentine ‘green gold’?

This nut introduced to Argentina from Iran is a growing product in the agricultural economy of the South American country, where there are more than 3,000 productive hectares of the crop and exports to Iran, Turkey, and Syria.

In the early 1980s, an Iranian family settled in the province of San Juan (northwest) and introduced pistachio cultivation when they recognized the geographical and climatic similarities of the San Juan valleys with the arid Persian lands . . .

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