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NCRI –\u00a0A board member of the Agriculture Committee of the Iran regime\u2019s parliament said sugar is imported \u201c10 times the required amount\u201d annually into the country and this issue has led to \u201cbillions of dollars profits for a few specific persons\u201d.<\/p>\n
Jalal Mahmoudzadeh said on Sunday January 28, announcing this issue in an interview with the state-run Tasnim news agency affiliated to terrorist Quds force, saying that \u201cirregular\u201d and excessive import of sugar has caused \u201cdamage to sugar beet producers and manufacturing plants” and “billion-dollar profits for certain people\u201d.<\/p>\n
He added that as result, the sugar factories are \u201cforced to present their products at 290 Toman less than the price of 2722 Toman approved by the government to meet their expenses\u201d.<\/p>\n
In another part of his statements, he said that sugar beet makers \u201chave delivered their product to the government for about three months\u201d, adding that the government has not paid the \u201ccost\u201d of the \u201cproduct and delivery\u201d until now.<\/p>\n
The regime\u2019s MP also added that the government, despite its promise, has not \u201cpaid\u201d until now \u201cthe subsidies for the double-rate sugar for the years 2015 and 2016\u201d that could have led to a constant price for this product.<\/p>\n
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Earlier, Mohammad Hosseini, a member of the Board of Directors of the Iranian Sugar Association, criticized irregular and excessive sugar imports, saying \u201cdespite the fact that the sugar produced inside the country is stocked in the warehouses, currently 2 million and 300 thousand tons sugar is imported annually.\u201d<\/p>\n
In March of this year, criticizing the government\u2019s failure to address the “last year’s debt payment” to sugar beet growers, he said the \u201cliquidity shortage\u201d was a major problem for sugar industry and said that \u201cthese units are unable to pay workers’ salaries due to financial problems.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Organization for Trade Development of Iran reported on October 10 a \u201cdramatic\u201d increase in imports, adding that imports of rice, corn and sugar have increased sharply and almost doubled.<\/p>\n
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Several members of the regime\u2019s parliament including Majid Kianpour had already spoke about the irregular and excessive import of rice. Kianpour in an interview with the state-run ISNA news agency had said: \u201cRice imports are too excessive and this issue harms domestic and local farmers.<\/p>\n
Another member of the regime\u2019s parliament, Mehrdad Baouj Lahouti, on November 11 while pointing to the import of1 million 60 thousands rice in the last year, added that \u201cper capita consumption of rice is 36 kilograms per Iranian, and according to this, the country\u2019s needs for rice are estimated to be 2 million and 800 thousand tons\u201d.<\/p>\n
By announcing the importation of more than a billion dollars of rice to the country during the current year, this member of the regime\u2019s parliament said that the result of \u201cirregular and excessive\u201d import of this product was \u201cstrategic usage change of about three thousand hectares of rice fields.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Lahouti also said: \u201cSo far, a million tons of rice has been imported. By the end of this year, another million (tons of rice) will be imported. One million tons is also smuggled. So tell the farmer to sell his land and do not plant and grow rice.\u201d<\/p>\n
In this regard, Mohammad Hossein Ghorbani, deputy head of the Healthcare Committee of the regime\u2019s parliament, said on Tuesday, \u201cAnnually, 400,000 tons of rice\u201d are imported, a significant proportion of which is contaminated with \u201cArsenic\u201d.<\/p>\n
According to the state-run ISNA news agency, Mohammad Sadegh Hassani, member of the regime\u2019s parliament from Rasht, on September 17 last year said the biggest problem of Iran is imports, adding \u201cthe huge personal profits from imports have broken the back of the economy\u201d.<\/p>\n
According to ISNA, he had also said: \u201cImport of goods is made with one tenth of the price of the manufactured goods, and thus it has broken the back of the economy, and as long as we do not prevent imprudent and uncalculated imports motivated by and resulting from rents, the recession and the negative growth of the economy will continue to persist.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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