Tehran, Iran, Dec.27
Trend:
Iran's meat market currently has no issues, due to volume of imported meat, however the oversupplied beef market would create problems for domestic producers, including high production costs and lack of customers, head of Iran's Livestock Exporters National Assembly Mansour Pourian said, Trend reports via ILNA.
"The livestock exports have their tariffs, but the Iranian stock breeders did not have high volume of exports so far. However, Iran has successfully exported the heifer meat," Pourian said.
"Iran had exported 44,000 heads of livestock in 2017 before the sanctions, there was no impact on domestic production. The priority for the farmers is production and sale, livestock shouldn't be kept stored because meat loses its quality," he said.
Pourian also said that meat smuggling affected the domestic market. The situation seems to be normalizing though. The official also said that Iran is expected to import frozen meat, unfrozen packaged meat and live calf.
According to Pourian, foreign currency rate ups and downs have effected the prices as well.
"Like other products, livestock prices have increased as well, the expected price is less than a stockbreeder's profit and production costs so they can not offer lower price on meat," he explained.
"The domestic production is expensive in the country and by implementing good policy to allow exports it would help the producers while the supply of market by imported meat would create stable prices," Pourian believes.