Monthly export of sweets, chocolates, cereal products rises 21% yr/yr Tehran Times TEHRAN- The value of Iran’s export of sweets, chocolates, and cereal products increased 21 percent in the first month of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21-April 20), as compared to the same month of the past year, an official with Iran’s Trade Promotion Organization (TPO) announced. Mahmoud Bazari, the director-general of TPO’s office of agricultural products and processing industries, said that the export of the mentioned items also registered a 13-percent growth in terms of weight in the mentioned month. While mentioning Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Azerbaijan as the main target markets for the export of these products, he said the production of sweets and chocolates in the country has made good progress in the last ten years and can be said to have an acceptable status in terms of quality and variety of products.