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29 veterinary plans will be launched in this year, 2019, decade of Fajr
According to the Ministry of Jihad-Agriculture information
centre, Dr. Alreza Rafiee-Pour, Head of veterinary organization, on the
occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Islamic revolution, in regard to the
achievements made in veterinary medicine in the last four decades, has
told: the country’s livestock, poultry,
aquaculture and bee products value about 15 billion dollars, which represent a
favorable food security situation in our country.
among top 10 egg producers and the world's leading producer of salmon fish in
the world. He then added that: Iran is in a good position related to our
neighboring countries in shrimp production.
Rafiee-Pour also mentioned that production in the areas of
livestock, poultry and aquaculture, with the efforts of veterinary and sanitary
workers and researchers, has increased to more than ten fold in the past four
decades.
65 million sheep and goats, 200 million chicken, we have 2 million tons of
chicken meat, 900 thousand tons of eggs and 900 thousand tons of red meat
production.
In the field of animal slaughtering, he added that: the
amount of livestock slaughtered in the year 57 was about 980 thousand, and now
this number has reached 12 million. Head of veterinary organization informed
that an agreement was signed with Brazil and Turkey in order to facilitate
livestock imports between Iran and these two countries.
signing these agreement letter will have an impact on the market, as well as on
facilitating imports of livestock from Brazil and the European Union. In
response to a question asked by our reporter regarding this year Fajr decade
plans, he mentioned that: 29 projects in various fields of veterinary, which
worth about 922 billion Rials, will be put into operation.
