Animal feed imports rose 114 percent

Majid Movafegh Ghadiri in an interview with Fars News Agency said: "Non-oil exports, especially agricultural products, while creating high added value, improve the employment situation of young Iranian society and earn the foreign exchange needed for import in the country as well as reduction of the country influence factor of the global political and economic changes that arise because of reliance on the oil economy". He added: "New developments in the global economy that move to eliminate 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 mutation was necessary and requires a serious commitment". Movafegh Ghadiri stated: "the export part of animal feed, poultry and fish from through the side benefits obtained will be able to have a positive effect on the total factor productivity of production of animal protein supply chain in the country and provide the possibility of increasing the economic output of livestock". He added: "non-export sectors of agricultural industry, at the same time, benefit indirectly through two parts from increased exports: by the use of management services, marketing strategy and improve technology as well as the development of transport and communications and additional services". This businessman said: "export factor productivity in the manufacturing sector of livestock, poultry and aquatic is much higher than non-export sector productivity, because of the use of more specialized and skilled labor, superior technology and strengthen the mobility of factors of production". The chairman of Iran Feed Industry Association said that in general, business, resulting in increased expertise and efficiency in the export sectors and finally causes a reallocation of resources from inefficient and non-commercial sectors to commercial sectors, this phenomenon can help the growth of industrial feed production and the finally helps to the country livestock. He represents:" while export growth has an impact on economic growth, has other side effect such as: increasing the productivity of factors of production, efficiency in resource allocation, advances in technology and the use of new technologies, providing the possibility to take advantage of economies of scale and the increasing specialization of labor in the feed industry and manufactories of animal poultry and fish feed". Movafegh Ghadiri with stating that unfortunately due to lack of sufficient liquidity, stagflation in the market, lack of knowledge of competitors and target markets for export, administrative complex bureaucracy, banking issues, Parallel actions of executive organs, as well as numerous other factors caused the export value of animal feed in 2015 lower to 55 percent than a year earlier and exports of these products declined to 58 percent.