The forgotten national gold Arian chicken/ what is the Achilles heel of the new minister of agricultural jihad?

According to the economic correspondent of Fars news agency, more than 3 years have passed since the Supreme Leader’s order to revive the Arian line chicken, no positive and effective action has been taken in this regard.

While the Ministry of Jihad and Agriculture could achieve the revival of this strain by implementing the policy of integrating Arian line chicken production, but by implementing inappropriate policies, it caused strong protests by chicken farmers.

Therefore, in the current situation, when the minister proposed by the government for the Ministry of Agricultural Jihad is to be introduced to the parliament, it is necessary that the nominated person should present a special program for the revival of this national wealth according to past experiences, and the parliament should also supervise the programs. He has

The first and most important input for the production of chicken meat in the poultry industry is eugenic one-day-old chicks, because this bird, in addition to its high growth rate, also reduces the cost of chicken meat production.

The production of one-day-old crossbred chicks depends on line flocks. Meanwhile, the technology of creating and managing flocks of broiler chicken lines is available to a few countries, including Iran.

* Production of ancestral chickens related to line flocks

Line chicken in Iran is known as Arin. This line provided a significant part of the poultry industry’s need for day-old chicks until the early 80s. But due to the negligence of the authorities over the past years, the share of this line in the supply of day-old chicks decreased drastically and reached zero until the early 90s. With the removal of Arian line chickens from the country’s poultry industry, practically all day-old chickens needed by chicken farmers were produced and supplied through the import of ancestral chickens from western countries.

Ancestral chickens are also dependent on line flocks, and it is practically impossible to copy and reproduce ancestral flocks, because if they are copied, they will suffer a severe drop in performance indicators in the next generations. The economic life of ancestral herds is about 65 weeks. After the end of the economic life, the ancestral flocks must enter the country again, otherwise the production of chicken meat will be stopped.

In other words, the countries that own the line, without exporting the line chicken, are trying to make the target countries depend only by exporting the ancestral chicken.

The necessity of revitalizing Arian line chicken in order to nullify the embargo and ensure food security

In this regard, due to Iran’s dependence on the import of ancestral chickens, due to the sanctions imposed by the United States of America in 2018, it was not possible to import this bird for a while. This issue could lead to food insecurity in the country by stopping the production of chicken meat. Therefore, dependence on the import of ancestral chickens created a pressure lever against the country from the western governments.

In this regard, in order to maintain food security in the chicken meat production sector and deal with external pressures and easing sanctions, the issue of revitalizing Arian line chicken as a domestic capacity was put on the agenda.

In this regard, Morteza Rezaei, former deputy of livestock production affairs of the Ministry of Jihad and Agriculture, said in August 2019: Considering the existence of the Arian line chicken complex in the country and the potential and actual genetic capabilities of this strain, as well as according to the special order of the Supreme Leader regarding the revival of the Arian line chicken in The country and the attention of all high-ranking officials of the country, especially the Minister of Jihad and Agriculture, the National Committee for the Revival of Margh Aryan was formed continuously and with all seriousness since 2018 with the presence of various executive and supervisory bodies.[1]

The failure of the Aryan chicken revival plan with the implementation of the wrong policies of the Ministry of Agricultural Jihad

Investigations show that more than 3 years have passed since the establishment of the Arian Line National Poultry Committee, as well as the change of 2 Ministers of Jihad and Agriculture during the past 3 years, but no positive and effective action has been taken regarding the revival of this domestic strain.

In the meantime, the implementation of incomplete and sometimes wrong policies by the Ministry of Jihad and Agriculture, such as the policy of breeding chickens corresponding to imported strains, as well as handing over flocks of ancestors of Arian chickens to companies that import flocks of ancestors, is the reason for the formation of rent and corruption due to the remittance sale of Arian chickens, the removal of flocks of Arian chickens. Under the pretext of illness, he provided breeding fraud by hatching foreign strains called Arian strain.

The continuation of these conditions at the moment, while damaging the Arian line chicken brand in the poultry industry, due to the economic differences between Arian and foreign breeds and the lack of effective support from the government, has caused chicken farmers to protest against the forced hatching of this domestic strain.

The need to demand the Arian line chicken revival program from the proposed Minister of Agriculture Jihad

While the government could instead of implementing wrong and incomplete policies by simply choosing a commercial trustee for this strain through the creation of an integrated chain of Arian line chicken, while using the contract production capacity to expand the market of this strain, the possibility of research and development and promotion Margh Line also provided Aryan through this integrated chain.

But now, more than 3 years have passed since the Supreme Leader’s order to revive the Line Arian chicken, no effective action has been taken in this regard, and the government’s actions in this regard have not resulted in any particular result.

Therefore, considering the importance of preserving, promoting and stabilizing the Arian line chicken and also according to the order of the Supreme Leader regarding the restoration of this internal capacity, the minister proposed by the government should have a specific and operational plan and plan for the revival of the Arian line chicken, and it is necessary on the one hand During the selection of the Minister of Jihad and Agriculture, the representatives of the Islamic Council should also be careful in evaluating the plans of the proposed minister regarding the revival of this domestic breed.

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