Is chicken cheap in Iran?

Published 2023년 12월 17일

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The price of chicken in Tehran has increased to over 90,000 tomans per kilo, and poultry industry activists attribute this to various reasons such as increased production costs and delayed supply of inputs like poultry feed. There are concerns about the timely supply of inputs, as chicken farmers are forced to buy feed and one-day-old chicks at higher prices than the government-approved rates, impacting the cost of production. The Deputy Minister of Jihad Agriculture has promised an increase in chicken production which, if implemented, could lead to a decrease in chicken prices in the coming weeks and months.

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According to ISNA, it has been a few weeks since the price of chicken has increased and has reached more than 90 thousand tomans per kilo in the shops of Tehran city. The increase in the price, which the poultry industry activists cite several reasons for, including the increase in production costs and the lack of timely supply of inputs. Habib Asadollah Nejad - an expert in the poultry industry - considered one of the reasons for this price increase to be the lack of timely supply of inputs and stated that the poultry feed is not supplied on time and this has caused the poultry farmers to buy the feed they need from the open market at a low price. prepare higher ones. According to him, while the government soybean price is 20,900 tomans, but because it is not supplied on time, chicken farmers buy it at a price of 35,000 tomans per kilogram. He also called the approved price of one-day-old chicken as another reason for the increase in the price of chicken and said that the ...

Source: Isna