Hidden rent | Increased liquidity needs of producers after the reform of government currency

According to Fars News Agency’s economic correspondent, according to reports, the government has decided to amend the subsidy that has been allocated for basic goods to control prices since April 2016, because during this period $ 46 billion of foreign exchange has been allocated, but not only prices have decreased. It has not been found, but it has also created rents and corruption.

Now, some producers have concerns, such as reforming the 4,200 Toman currency and converting it into a half currency, the price of production inputs will increase and the need for liquidity of poultry farmers and ranchers will increase sixfold. Be poultry farmers.

Saeedeh Mashayekhi, a poultry farmer in this regard, said in an interview with Fars News Agency’s economic correspondent: “The government has decided to reform the government currency that was previously allocated for the import of various livestock and poultry inputs and deposit it in the consumer’s account, but about increasing The price of inputs and liquidity supply has not provided any plans.

He added: “It is better for one of the officials to announce the liquidity programs required by livestock and poultry farmers before implementation.”

According to this poultry farmer, the price of each kilo of soy is 3700 Tomans, which will reach 24 thousand Tomans if the government currency is reformed, which means that the price of livestock inputs will increase 6 times, and this means that the liquidity required by producers will increase six times. Officials have not said how producers will provide the liquidity.

This Isfahani poultry farmer added: “Currently, for a 30,000 poultry farm for a 45-day period, 1 billion and 200 million Tomans of liquidity is needed for input, which will increase to 7 billion Tomans with the currency reform, while banks They have not provided facilities to producers for several months.

In another part of his speech, he mentioned the possibility of rent and corruption and said: “The warehouses of many importers are full of inputs and with the increase of prices, the profit will go to their pockets again.”

Mashayekhi also expressed concern about the reduction in production and said: “Producers are worried that the demand for the product will decrease as prices rise, and so that one-day-old chickens, which had previously reached 10,000 tomans, some producers offer 2,000 tomans.” , Because they think the demand for day-old chicks will decrease.

He announced: considering the change of the government exchange rate to half for the goods for which the Ministry of Jihad Agriculture has requested 27 thousand billion tomans of facilities to provide working capital needed by producers from the government board, but production is a time consuming process and It takes 45 days to 9 months for the manufacturer’s product to reach the market.

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