Dr. Seyed Ismail Yazdanpanah, CEO of the International Center for International Trade and Rice Terminal of Iran, added: Although every year the surplus or decrease in the production of agricultural products creates many problems for regulating the market, the implementation of contract farming will solve these problems.
Lack of planning in the cultivation of crops has often put farmers in a disadvantageous situation to turn agriculture into a high-risk job, so that one year the crop remains on the farmer’s hand and the next year it is so little cultivated and supplied that its price jumps in the market, but now Officials consider contract farming to be the solution to these types of problems.
Experts believe that considering that currently 86% of the country’s agriculture is small ownership and single crop, the implementation of contract farming regardless of this fact that governs the country’s agriculture sector, will cause loss to the farmer and threat to the country’s food security.
Esmail Yazdanpanah said in a conversation with Bazar reporter: In order to achieve self-sufficiency in the production of strategic products, including rice, we must pay attention to its value chain and complete it. And pay attention to the knowledge base of production.
1400 combine harvesters are harvesting rice in Amol
He mentioned commerce as the next link in the value chain in rice production and added: customer orientation is another link and if we want to have sustainable and self-sufficient production, we must see all its chains and links as complete because knowledge-based leads to cost reduction, increase Quality, production and self-sufficiency.
Pointing to the importance of contract rice cultivation, he said: Last year, this center brought 120 hectares of paddy fields under contract rice cultivation, and by providing training, we tried to move agriculture from traditional to industrial.
