Iran can achieve self-sufficiency in sugar production within the next four years provided domestic factories are equipped with up-to-date machinery. A record high of 1.65 million tons of sugar were produced in Iran in the last fiscal year (March 2016-17), which amount is unprecedented in the last 120 years. Iranians consume between 2.2 and 2.4 million tons of sugar a year and last year the import of more than 550,000 tons of the product was needed.