Meat in Iran became more expensive by 15,000 tomans in a week

The head of the Mutton Sellers' Union announced on Thursday, January 29, an increase of about 15,000 Tomans in the price of meat over the past week due to the "quarantine of sheep for export to Persian Gulf countries."

According to ILNA, Ali Asghar Maleki, the head of the union, also stated that currently, livestock farmers do not sell their livestock to domestic sellers, adding that domestic sellers buy live livestock for 62,000 tomans per kilo, but the price of exported livestock is 90,000 tomans per kilo, and livestock exporters can sell livestock to Arab buyers for $3 per kilo.

Thus, according to this trade union official, on Thursday, January 29, the price of a lamb leg exceeded 170,000 Tomans, while due to rising prices, per capita meat consumption in Iran has decreased by 50 percent in the past year.

In early October of this year, the director of the country's Light Livestock Union, referring to a 50 percent decrease in meat consumption in Iran, said that per capita meat consumption in Iran had dropped from 12 kilograms per year to six kilograms.

However, according to the Minister of Economy of the Islamic Republic, the 4,200 Tomans allocated for the import of basic goods to control the prices of these goods will also be removed from the 1401 (2022) budget for the import of livestock inputs and similar items.

According to a report by the Statistical Center of Iran, the annual inflation rate in November of this year was 44.4 percent, and based on official statistics from the Ministry of Labor, the average price of more than 83 percent of food items in Iran has exceeded the crisis level.

Source: Radio Farda