Officials Discuss Prospects of Livestock Exports

Livestock smuggling is not more than 0.1% of the country’s livestock population, says Hamid Reza Dehqaninia, the spokesman of Iran’s Headquarters for Combating the Smuggling of Commodities and Foreign Exchange. 
Noting that there are between 65-70 million head of livestock in the country, the official said a total of 60,000 head of livestock were confiscated in the last fiscal year [ended March 19, 2020] and 99,000 head of livestock were confiscated during the seven-month period to Oct. 21, which indicate that the outbound smuggling of livestock is not more than 0.1%. 
“As a result, outbound smuggling has no significant impact on red meat prices,” Dehqaninia said. 
Echoing the same remarks, Ali Asghar Makanali, the head of Iran Veterinary Organization, said there’s no shortage of livestock in the country and the outflow of livestock from borders is insignificant.