Outbound Smuggling Threatening Domestic Poultry Market

Some poultry plants sell their day-old chicken to neighboring countries despite receiving subsidized poultry feed from the government. 
According to Habib Asadollah-Nejad, the deputy head of Iran Chicken Farmers Union, the outbound trafficking of day-old chicken has resulted in the shortage and price hike of the product in the local market. 
“The government has set the price of a kilogram of chicken at 249,000 rials [about $1]; retailers across the country are required to comply with the decision,” he was quoted as saying by Mehr News Agency. 
According to Hassan Abbasi Maroufan, Government Trading Corporation of Iran's commercial affairs deputy, per capita consumption of chicken in Iran is 28 kilograms per year, which indicates that overall consumption is not more than 2.2 million tons.