Potentials and Prospective of Investment in Fruit and Nut Crops Industry

1 Potentials and Prospective of Investment in Fruit and Nut Crops Industry K. Vahdati* Professor of Pomology, Department of Horticulture, University of Tehran, Aburaihan Campus, Tehran, Iran. *Corresponding author: kvahdati@ut.ac.ir The world’s population is estimated to increase by one billion people by 2025 to reach 8 billion; while more than 1.4, 1 and 3 billion people are hungry, overweight and malnutrition, respectively. Horticulture industry can overcome many of these problems. Horticulture industry especially fruit and nut industry is known as one of the high-income parts of the economy of any country. In addition, the high labor demand of fruit