Iran’s livestock industry is on the verge of bankruptcy!
Livestock export ban, low record breaking price of fodder and grain, increase in transportation costs and decrease in people’s purchasing power have all joined hands to put ranchers in the dilemma of closure or loss.
Providing food security after life security is the second duty and mission of the nation’s government. Our country, Iran, has a relative advantage for the production and breeding of light livestock due to the diversity of its climate.
According to the reports of the Iranian Statistics Center this year, there are sixty-three million heads of light livestock, of which seven million heads are surplus based on the per capita consumption.
With the unprecedented increase in fodder and grain prices, as well as the increase in other costs such as labor wages, transportation and vaccination, the cost of livestock production has increased. On the other hand, with the decrease in household consumption as a result of the decrease in people’s purchasing power as well as the corona epidemic, domestic market consumption has decreased.
The ban on the export of light livestock to the customers of foreign markets, in addition to causing losses to livestock farmers and as a result to the closure of animal husbandry units, also contributes to the instability of the credit of commercial operators in global markets and their removal and handing over those markets to competitors.
The countries of Armenia, Georgia and Turkey are now engaged in the export of light livestock needed by the market of the Persian Gulf coast countries through Iran’s transportation lines. Iran’s cattle breeders are regretfully watching the takeover of this market by Aghiar and Khosran and their losses under the pretext of keeping the price of meat low.
It seems that Khosolati’s mafia and the influential people of Iran’s meat market are trying to bring about the death of Iran’s animal husbandry by making excuses such as: export makes meat more expensive, and then by importing meat from Brazil, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and so on. to secure their group and personal interests at the cost of sacrificing national interests.
In any case, food security depends on securing the minimum profit of the producer, and this is provided by lifting the export ban and maintaining and gaining foreign markets.
Unfortunately, in the domestic market, the purchase price of each kilo of sheep is 60 thousand tomans and the final price is 112 thousand tomans based on the following calculations:
The cost of fattening a sheep of 35-45 kilos (Shishek):
– The cost of feed for five months of keeping a mother ewe: 1800,000 Tomans
– The cost of feed for six months of raising lambs: 1800,000 Tomans
– Health and vaccination costs for sheep and lambs: 550,000 Tomans
-Shepherd and labor costs for ten months: 800,000 tomans
The total price of Shishak fattened lamb: 4600000 Tomans
The total price of each kilo of live sheep: 112,000 Tomans
Based on the following fodder and grain prices:
– The average price of straw: 4500 Tomans
– Average price of hay: 6000 Tomans
– Average price of barley: 5500 tomans
– Average price of concentrate: 4500
– Average daily feed of ewe: 1600 grams (1200 grams of fodder and 400 grams of barley and concentrate)
– Average feed for lambs from the second month to six months: 1400 grams (900 grams of fodder and 500 grams of barley and concentrate)
reach the President and the Minister of Jihad Agriculture
This post is written by Tibak66