Smiley raisins under the round teeth of speculators
The head of Khondab Jihad-e-Keshavarzi said:
the price of raisins has increased from 15,000 Tomans last year to about 20,000 Tomans this year,
but brokers in this field are consulting to reduce the price.
Reza Hossein Esmaili stated:
out of a total of 13,000 hectares under cultivation of agricultural products in Khondab city,
6,700 hectares are for grapes and the rest are under cultivation of other garden products such as apricots, plums, cherries, peaches and nectarines,
etc. Annually, about 170,000 tons of crops are harvested from the gardens of this city, of which 100,000 to 120,000 tons are grapes.
He added:
10 to 15% of the amount of grapes harvested from the orchards of the city is fresh and the rest is turned into raisins, based on this,
about 30,000 tons of raisins are produced in the city.
The head of Jihad-e-Keshavarzi Khondab stated:
At present, there are two raisin processing units in the city and two other units have been issued permits,
but this number of factories is not enough for the city and there must be at least 10 units in the city to be able to respond.
The city needs. Some of the processed raisins are exported abroad and some are exported to other provinces.
Ismaili continued:
The production capacity of the current two units is about five thousand and 500 tons in total, which with the launch of two more units,
the production capacity in the city will reach about 11 thousand tons.
Sell it, which will eventually incur a loss, because the gardener must sell his product in order to cover his expenses in any case.
He added:
Lack of processing plant, instability and low price of raisins are the most important problems of raisins in Khondab.
Of course, the price of raisins has increased from 15,000 Tomans last year to about 20,000 Tomans this year,
but brokers in this field are consulting for Prices are falling, on the other hand, the farmer can not refuse to sell the product,
so he has to sell at the current price.
He noted:
Due to inflation in the country, the price of raisins should legally be calculated between 20 to 30 thousand tomans,
but brokers do not allow the price of this product to increase and the government and the Rural Cooperative Organization need to enter this area.
The head of Khondab Jihad-e-Keshavarzi stated that the production of other horticultural products in the city is about 6,300 tons and said:
the area under cultivation of rain-fed and irrigated wheat, rain-fed barley, irrigation,
rapeseed and alfalfa in the city is about 20,000 hectares and about 150 annually.
One thousand tons of produce is produced, |
this year 12 thousand tons of wheat in excess of farmers’ consumption has been purchased and stored in the city’s wheat storage silo.
