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Food security amid sanctions

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How has US’s sanctions affect food security in Iran? Food security has four main pillars. The first pillar of the debate is availability, meaning that food must be available in the required amount.

It goes without saying that the agricultural sector needs resources and agricultural components to produce food, perhaps the most important of which are basic resources such as soil, water, our biodiversity, and other factors of production, including the productive components, machinery, and so on.

During the four decades since the Islamic Republic was founded, we have been able to meet 80% of our agricultural needs and food, and we have the least dependence in this regard, especially on products such as wheat, we have managed to become relatively self-sufficient for some years.

In the years when we faced drought, we met at least 80% of our wheat needs from the inside. The same was true for other strategic products. In the field of dairy products, rice, and some other strategic products, we have been able to achieve relative self-sufficiency and even managed to export five to six billion dollars a year in various agricultural products.

The wheat harvest has actually decreased by 500,000 tons in the last crop year. However, the rice harvest has increased by 200,000 tons. And other grains have grown by 200,000 tons.

Iran’s staple diet is wheat, barley and rice.


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