Unions’ pressure on Jihad Ministries to get livestock export license
According to the economic correspondent of Fars news agency, the producer unions have put pressure on the Ministry of Jihad and Agriculture to issue an export license under the pretext of the existence of a surplus of livestock, as the price of meat in the market is already very high, and in this case, the price may increase too much. will exist had
Red meat, which is sold in the market at a price of 220 thousand tomans per kilo, if the Ministry of Jihad Agriculture wants to issue a livestock export license, the domestic price will increase more and it is natural that the purchasing power of middle and lower families will decrease.
For several months, producer unions have put pressure on the Ministry of Agricultural JihadNed to allow them to export live livestock and they say there is a surplus of livestock in the country. The words of these unions, which claim to be the representatives of the producers, while their argument about the surplus of production contradicts the market price.
If we believe in the law of supply and demand and its relationship with the price, it is natural that if there is a surplus of production, the price should go down, but the prices continue to rise, and this is a paradox that these livestock surplus claimants do not provide an answer for.
The country produces about 900,000 tons of red meat annually and needs to import about 150,000 tons, and during these years we have not been able to fill this small gap.
Therefore, if, according to the unions, there is a surplus of livestock production, the Livestock Affairs Support Company will purchase them and supply them to the market when needed.
The government has mandated the Livestock Affairs Support Company to buy the surplus cattle of ranchers and this process continues. Apparently, the unions are not satisfied with this move of the government and they are still insisting on obtaining a livestock export license.
Exports increase domestic prices
The government’s previous experience in issuing export licenses for eggs has shown that after that the prices increased and now each comb of eggs has reached 85 thousand tomans, which is 10 thousand tomans more than the approved rate, and there is a concern that with the issuance of meat licenses, This product will become more expensive and it will be impossible for the middle class to buy it.
The question still remains why, even though the country’s livestock support company buys the surplus production of livestock farmers, they put their foot in a shoe to get an export license.
* The profit of some people is in export
It seems that export is profitable for some people who are definitely not common cattle breeders, and this is the reason why they put pressure on the Ministry of Jihad for months to issue this license.
The Ministry of Agricultural Jihad, which is engraved on its forehead as the Ministry of Production, even after the return of the abstraction law that gave this ministry the duties of commerce and market, perhaps forgot that according to this law, it is equally obligated to the consumer and to the demands of production. The customers give up quickly, maybe because there is no other way to fulfill their wishes.
The 5-fold increase in the price of livestock feed has increased the production costs and reduced their profit margin. Ranchers have raised this criticism many times and it seems that the Ministry of Jihad is forced to give in to their demands because it does not have a reliable solution.
Livestock export reached the last station
Chairman of the Board Management The Cattlemen’s Trade Union has recently said that the live livestock export procedure has been finalized and the Minister of Agriculture has ordered the Deputy Minister of Commercial Development of this Ministry to notify it to the customs.
Ahmed Moghdisi added: In this regard, two days ago, the live animal export procedure was finalized and Mr. Sadatinejad, the Minister of Jihad of Agriculture, ordered the deputy minister of commercial development of this ministry to notify the customs.
Moghdisi added: This work will be done early next week and we are also waiting for the export to start as soon as possible.
Regarding the amount of exports, he added: the exports are supposed to be managed so as not to harm the domestic market.
Moghdisi said: We did not discuss much about the amount of export, because there was a possibility that by insisting on this issue, the whole issue of export would be discarded and livestock farmers would suffer losses.
Moghdisi added: This work will be done early next week and we are also waiting for the export to start as soon as possible.
After the virus outbreak coronavirus In February 1998, as well as the beginning of the war between Russia and Ukraine, in the last 6 months, the procedure of the countries to provide food security in the conditions of food pressure has increased. At first, limit or stop, which was a clear example in Russia and by order of Putin.
In the next place, they maximize their reserves so that they don’t have enough reserves of strategic products in the days, which is a concrete example of China, which has stored more than half of the world’s wheat exports in its warehouses.
Ebrahim Moradzadeh, Bachelor of Economics, saidWego He told Fars reporter: “The conditions of the world markets are not suitable and it is affected by the war between Russia and Ukraine, as well as the threats that now exist for the occurrence of new wars.”
He added: Climate changes have made food production very difficult, the temperature of the earth has increased by two degrees, severe droughts and at the same time torrential rains, so that just yesterday according to meteorological reports in South Korea, it rained as much as a month in just one day. It rained and blocked the roads and subway stations, and all this has put pressure on production, on the other hand, the world’s population is increasing day by day, but production resources are almost constant.
Therefore, in such a situation, the decision of the Ministry of Agricultural Jihad for export should be in accordance with the understanding of the facts and not based on feelings, at least believe in the way other countries are going, that they have not chosen such a procedure for no reason. The decision to export livestock may make some people happy today, but many consumers will suffer, so this is a big question, is not storing inside and supplying when needed is the best solution?
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