Reducing the volume of caviar exports by increasing the value of goods
The head of the Fisheries Organization and the Deputy Minister of Jihad for Agriculture said: in the first seven months of 1387, 16 thousand and 71 tons of fishery goods were exported from the country, which shows a growth of 21% compared to the same period of 1386.
Engineer Vahid Zare stated: The amount of exports in the first seven months of 2007 was 13 thousand 210 tons and the value of exports in the same period reached 26 million 849 thousand 352 million 572 dollars, which in comparison with exports 26 million 572 thousand The dollar rose 1 percent last year.
He added: This year, three groups of goods, including ornamental fish, horse mane fish and sardines, have been officially included in the export basket for the first time in the history of fishery exports, which is 728 tons of these items worth one million and one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. it has been exported. Due to the relative cheapness of this group of aquatic animals in the country, each of them has been exported with an added value of about 2.5 times, which with the planned planning, this amount will reach 3.5 times the added value of horse mane fish by the end of this year.
The head of Iran’s fisheries said: The important point is that this fish has already been sent to fish meal factories as a type of fishery, and according to the trend of the last 10 years, 35 to 40 percent of aquatic exports in the first seven months, 60 to 65 Its percentage has occurred in the last five months due to the mass supply of seafood and farming in the second half of the year, which is why it is expected to achieve the goals of the Fourth Development Plan in the export sector in 2008.
Zare reminded: in the field of caviar, the decrease in export volume was compensated by increasing the value of exported goods, so that in return for the export of 1.2 tons of caviar, 3 million and 446 thousand dollars entered the country, while the amount of exports in 2007 was 1.6 tons worth two Million and 993 thousand dollars, which shows a growth of 15.11 percent.