Animal feed imports rose 114 percent, US $ 2.11 per kilo of imported animal feed.

Chairman of Iran Feed Industry Association in an interview with Fars News: Animal feed imports rose 114 percent, US $ 2.11 per kilo of imported animal feed. CEO of Coordinating Corporate Animal Feed Company stated: The value of imports for animal feed was $ 43.65 million in the year 94 (2015) which has increased 114 percent than the previous year and 72 percent by weight. Chairman of Iran Feed Industry Association in an interview with Fars News, said: Non-oil exports, especially agricultural products, not only creating high added value, but also improve the employment situation of young Iranian society and earn the foreign exchange needed for import in the country. Further, it reduces the country`s influence factor of the global political and economic changes that arise because of reliance on the oil economy. He added: new changes in global economic which moves to remove all non-tariff barriers and tariff reduction, in order to increase the country's share in the global economy and achieve sustainable economic growth and development, export jump is essential and requires a serious determination. Movafegh Ghadirly stated: The export of animal, poultry and aquatic feed will be able to have side benefits and through this side benefits obtained, have a positive effects on total factor productivity of animal protein supply chain in the country, and provides the possibility of increasing the economic output of livestock. He added: in the meanwhile non-export sectors of the agricultural industry benefits indirectly from management services, marketing strategy and improve technology as well as the development of transport and communications and additional services due to the growth of export sector and also benefits arising from increased exports. This economic member said: Productivity factors of export in the manufacturing sector of livestock, poultry and aquatic is much higher than productivity factors in non- export sector, because of the use of skill labor, high technology and boosting the mobility of production. Iran feed industry association`s chairman stating that business in general, leading to increased expertise and efficiency in the export sectors, and finally causes a reallocation of resources from inefficient and non-commercial sectors to commercial sectors, said: This phenomenon can help the growth of feed industrial production and finally help the country`s livestock. While export growth has side effects on output growth, the effects such as: factor productivity, efficiency in resource allocation, technology development and the use of new technologies, providing the possibility to take advantage of economic scale and the increasing of labor specialized in the animal, poultry and aquatic manufactories. He stating unfortunately, due to lack of sufficient liquidity, stagflation in the market, lack of knowledge of competitors and the target markets for export, office complex bureaucracy, banking issues and problems and numerous other factors, caused the export value of animal feed, poultry and aquatic in (2015) decreased to 55 percent over the previous year and a 58 percent decline in exports. Movafegh Ghadirly outlined base price per kilo of export feed in (2015) was 53 cents (in 2014 this figure was 49 cents) and the base price per kilo of imported feed, in 2015 was $ 2 and 11 cents (in 2014 this figure was 1 dollar and 69 cents). Soybean meal import value in 2015 was 710 million and 146 thousand dollars, compared to the same period last year it has dropped 47% in terms of value and 33 percent by weight. Also the value of imports of animal corn in 2015 was 1 billion and 405 million dollars that compared to the last year it has dropped 22% in terms of value and 3 percent by weight. And Barley imports in year 2015 compared to the same period in 2014, has fallen 15 percent (466 million dollars) and cattle wheat has increased 38 percent. He emphasized that the value of non-oil imports in 2015, were 41 billion and 499 million dollars that the share of livestock corn 3.4%, the share of barley 1.1 percent and 1.7 percent was the soybean meal share. Animal, poultry and aquatic industrial association`s chairman outlined that the export value of the food industry in 2015 has been 2 billion and 494 million dollars, he emphasized the contribution of animal feed, poultry and aquatic share from this figure was 0.9 percent. Also the value of food imports in 2015 has been 3 billion and 876 million dollars that the share of animal feed, poultry and aquatic was 0.5 percent.