The Iranian rice market couldn’t be worse.
One of the rice sellers, in a conversation with the Young Journalists Club, described the rice market as disastrous, a situation caused by the high price of rice. He says,
It couldn’t be worse. Most farmers have processed their paddy into rice at rice mills, and when they want to sell it, there are no buyers because they set a high price for the rice. The production costs are so expensive that farmers are forced to propose these figures. The cost of pesticides, fertilizers, labor, and renting agricultural machinery has increased so much that rice farmers cannot offer a lower price. After all, they have a livelihood and their income depends on this. The price that the farmer suggests for each kilogram of Tarom rice is 100 to 120 thousand tomans, but the price that wholesalers want is 80 to 85 thousand tomans, and this is the reason for the halt in buying and selling the new rice.