4-fold increase in the price of dates from production
While this year’s date harvest is approaching its final days and weeks, the new product could not be effective in making dates cheaper in the market, because according to the secretary of the date association, 2500 to 3000 tomans per kilogram will reach gardeners for first-class dates, but in the market Consumption of this product is about 12,000 tomans per kilogram, which is four times the irrational distance between gardeners and the retail market.
every year in the period between a few months before the date harvest and after the harvest season, this product is on the market due to what is called a shortage of dates, which in recent years has mainly coincided with Ramadan as one of the busiest dates for dates. We are witnessing an increase in the price of this product in the market, but more interestingly, this year, not only were dates more expensive in the first months, but also in the harvest season, and even when the new product came on the market, its price was not cheaper and more balanced.
Because Ali Asghar Mousavi – Secretary of the Date Association this regard: We are in the final weeks of date harvest and gardeners have finally sold their dates from 1000 to 2500 Tomans per kilogram and first-class dates in the most expensive varieties have been sold at a maximum of 3000 Tomans per kilogram. While this product is not as expensive and cheap as soil as long as it is in the hands of gardeners and producers, but when it reaches the hands of traders, it becomes rare and becomes gold.
He added: The only factor that has caused the high price of dates in the market are the few brokers who only see and want to make a profit and never think of the national interest and the people as consumers and customers.
It seems that the Minister of Jihad for Agriculture should set up a date headquarters as soon as possible and control it with the participation and sympathy of all private sector actors in the date industry and its production and market for the benefit of gardeners and the people, so that not everyone can do as he pleases. Behave in the market.
Mousavi, stating that there is no shortage in date production this year, said: The amount of date production this year is no different from previous years, and this year about 900 thousand to one million tons of dates have been produced, and in a situation where the product has just reached the market. And there is no problem in terms of inventory, consumer market prices for dates are very irrational and unfair to the people.