Contractual purchase replaces guaranteed purchase

According to Fars News Agency, quoting Broadcasting; Seyed Javad Sadati Nejad, among the agricultural and food industry organizations of the Tehran Chamber of Commerce, added: “From this year, we tried to replace the contract procurement procedure in the field of wheat and industry with guaranteed purchase, and we also had some progress.”

He said: “Of course, in the current situation, the contract purchase of agricultural products in Iran includes only one percent of products, which is a low number, because in the world this number is 40 to 90 percent.”

Sadati Nejad added: “Our approach is to carry out contract purchases in the field of livestock and agricultural products, meaning that our industries, especially the food and livestock industries, must sign contracts with farmers and ranchers, and production must be based on purchase contracts.”

He said: “If we promote contract agriculture, both the yield will increase and the farmer’s benefit will be improved.”

The Minister of Jihad for Agriculture added: “I believe that we have a wide variety of climates and capacities in agriculture, which produce power for each country.”

Sadati Nejad continued: Agriculture, private sectorMost It is the part of the country that not only must we have food security in this area, but we must also achieve food power and authority.

He said: “There is a capacity to achieve this power and authority in the country, but its position is in the hands of neighbors who even use our capacity to produce food in their country.”

Sadati Nejad added: “Our goal in the Ministry of Jihad Agriculture is to achieve food power and authority in the region, because we have both God-given gifts and its capacities and good infrastructure has been created in the country, but in recent years, policies between the operational sector There are organizations and the decisions that we are have created a gap.

“Like you, I do not believe in grammatical pricing,” he said. Agricultural organizations are not integrated and talk to each other, which causes the policymaker to make a mistake. For example, if we consult with an organization in a decision, 20 other organizations say that we have a different opinion.

Minister of Jihad for Agriculture criticized various authorities Licensing For agricultural organizations, he added: “Currently, the Ministry of Interior, the Ministry of Cooperatives, the Chamber of Cooperatives, the Chamber of Commerce and the Rural Cooperative Organization issue licenses for organizations in the field of agriculture, which causes the organizations to lack the necessary power.”

Sadati Nejad continued: “I believe that market regulation should be left to the organizations, provided that the organizations are also strong. If our organizations are strong, they can control the market in agreement with the government, ie if the price increases by importing from the consumer and if the price decreases Found to support the manufacturer by exporting.

He stated that in the thirteenth government, decisions in the field of agriculture are made in consultation with private sector organizations, and instructed his deputies to use the advice of private sector organizations in any decision for the field of agriculture and food industry.

Sadati Nejad said: “We started delegating powers to the provinces in this period and we seek to transfer extensive powers to the provinces to solve the problems in the field of agriculture in the provinces. We believe this approach will increase the speed of work and reduce bureaucracy problems due to lack of authority Gives.

Noting that one of the problems in the field of agriculture is the lack of investment, he added: “Over the past years, investment in the agricultural sector has not been less than industry, but even less than the share of agriculture in GDP, which we hope to be in the 1401 budget.” Increase the share of agriculture in investments to its share of GDP.

Sadati Nejad continued: “To achieve agricultural and food power, we need change and with the current situation and island movement, we will not reach this peak of power, so if we are to achieve this goal, we must have food diplomacy and our goal instead The domestic market is also a regional market.

“Our agricultural share of the region’s markets is about 2 percent, while the United States, with 4 percent of the world’s population, produces 37 percent of the world’s food, so we need to reconsider food diplomacy, because some products,” he said. What is exported to the countries of the region reaches the markets of the region in the name of other countries due to tariffs or transit problems.

The Minister of Jihad for Agriculture considered fisheries as potential areas for wealth production, currency and employment and added: “We have 2,600 to 2,700 kilometers of coastline, but 48% of the country’s aquaculture production takes place inside the country, which means from water borders.” And we do not use the country’s shores.

Sadati Nejad said: “While 200,000 tons had to be created for fish farming in cages, now we have reached a production equivalent to 20,000 tons, while the capacities in this field are abundant and we did not use it properly, for example in Norway.” It earns $ 30 billion in foreign exchange from caged fish farming.

He continued: “Another challenge of agriculture in the country is not using dryland capacities, which has caused 70% of the country’s cultivation to be irrigated and 30% rainfed, while this number is 70% rainfed cultivation and 30% irrigated cultivation in the world.” .

Sadati Nejad said: “We believe that policies and planning in the field of agriculture should be done in the Ministry of Agricultural Jihad, and if we are to achieve food authority, the three parties of the Parliamentary Agriculture Commission, the Ministry of Agricultural Jihad and organizations should participate in planning.”

The Minister of Jihad for Agriculture added: “According to the new law that is being considered by the Guardian Council, the regulation of the agricultural products market will be given to the Ministry of Jihad. It is current, so to regulate the market, we have to plan based on both domestic markets and regional and export markets.

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