43% increase in Iranian meat output
The Statistical Center of Iran (SCI) announced that production of red meat in Iran stood at 42,000 tonnes in the eleventh month of the current Iranian calendar year (January 20 – February 18), showing 43% growth compared to the same month in the past year. The SCI’s report said that beef and veal had the lion’s share in the country’s red meat output during the eleventh month with 24,100 tonnes, followed by lamb and mutton with 14,500 tonnes, goat meat with 2,500 tonnes, and red meat from other livestock with 918 tonmess.
The head of Iran’s Livestock Provision Council has called on the government to purchase the red meat at guaranteed prices to support the producers. Mansour Pourian has also recommended the exports of livestock to support the producers while bringing foreign revenue for the country, according to the Tehrannews neswpaper
Saying that the purchase of red meat at guaranteed prices started in the country in the middle of the fourth Iranian calendar month of Tir (early July, 2020), Pourian announced that 4,000 tons of red meat have been purchased in this way by the State Livestock Affairs Logistics Company since then.
The purchase of red meat at guaranteed prices is already done in 15 provinces, including Khorasan Razavi, North Khorasan, Gilan, Alborz, Yazd, Isfahan, Fars, Sistan-Baluchestan, Khuzestan, East Azarbaijan, and Semnan, he said, adding that it will be then conducted in the other provinces as well.
Iran’s deputy agriculture minister, Morteza Rezaei, has said that the total production of red and chicken meat is expected to reach 3.5 million tons by the end of the current Iranian calendar year (March 20).
He said red meat production will reach 880,000 tons, while chicken meat output is expected to reach 2.7 million tons.
“Considering the measures taken, the egg production will reach 1,650,000 tons, the honey output will reach 113,000 tons, and the production of fresh silk cocoons will reach 1,650,000 tons”, the official added.
Pointing to the per capita consumption of protein products in the country, Rezaei said: “Currently the per capita consumption of red meat is 12.5 kilograms, chicken meat 31.25 kilograms, raw milk 124 kilograms, eggs 11.72 kilograms and honey 1.35 kilograms.”
Iran is among the leading consumers of red meat in the West Asia region with lamb being the most sought after.
However, the consumption per person is around a third of what is normally seen in countries like the US and Australia, mainly due to the prohibition of pork in Islamic law. The major part of Iran’s red meat imports comes from countries like Brazil, where Iranian supervisors directly control culling methods to ensure they comply with religious rules.
This was stated by its Director General, Alberto Herranz, at the Chinese Embassy during his parti...
The decline, documented during the first quarter of 2026, highlights the profound impact of the n...
The production of food products, which currently takes place at the factory in Aalborg on Ø...
