Reza Torkashvand, the head of the Homeland Laying Hens Association, also emphasized that the price of eggs did not increase due to warmer weather and the lack of an export market: each kilo of eggs in the poultry door sells for 3,600 Tomans.
“We have not received any demand from Iraq or Afghanistan, as they receive their eggs from other countries, including Turkey, at cheaper prices,” he said in response to what volume of the country’s eggs are exported, given the disappearance of bird flu. .
According to Torkashvand, only a limited amount of eggs are exported to Afghanistan.
Hamid Kashani, one of the major egg producers in the country, said that the reason for the difference in egg prices between the poultry door and the consumer is the unsuitable distribution system, adding: “Sometimes intermediaries make a profit of 30 to 50 percent and therefore the price gap between production and consumption is high.”
He pointed out that the cost price of Iranian eggs is higher than neighboring competitors, including Turkey, added: Turks to increase their exports at the border to their exporters 700 to 800 tomans per kilogram of export incentives and they 3,000 eggs per kilogram Toman is sold to Iraq, while the same product is sold to the Turkish people at double the price in their own country, but the Turkish government provides export incentives to support exports.
Kashani emphasized: If the government wants to support the export of eggs, it must also provide subsidies for its export, otherwise we will