Deputy minister outlines role of cooperatives in Iran's agricultural market

The Iranian deputy minister of agricultural jihad has highlighted the importance of the smart supply value chain in the country’s agricultural market, saying Iran’s rural cooperatives are on the path to a sustainable and smart supply value chain.

According to Press TV, Dr. Hossein Shirzad, who is also chairman of the board of the Central Organization for Rural Cooperatives of Iran (CORC), made the comment in an article and underlined that the efficiency and effectiveness of the supply chain in the agricultural cooperatives, unions, and holdings is a very critical aspect.

“The increasing variability of food markets and crops along with the consumers' demands of the metropolitans has made rural cooperatives attain more flexibility,” Shirzad said.

“It has proven that the way of reaching cost advantage is not to produce high volume crops; rather it depends on the management of the supply value chain in the very nature of the local economy,” he added.

The Iranian official went on to say that “the success of a sustainable supply chain depends on the participatory leadership viewpoints, improving the social and economic of trader and producers.”

Shirzad concluded that having a smart sustainable supply chain requires giving appropriately agricultural input and loans, provide correct and timely mechanization service, and reinforce partnerships in the farmers' community through appropriate institualization.

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