Rising Agrifood Prices Linked to Poor Transport Infrastructures

Challenges related to transportation and logistics have plagued the Iranian supply system for years, but government officials take notice of this disease only when the market faces a new price shock, Mehdi Karimi-Tafreshi, the head of the Union of Food Product Distribution and Sales Cooperatives, said in an article for the Persian daily Jahan-e Sanat. 
A translation of the text follows: 
Farmers bear the main burden of production but they gain the smallest fraction of profits from the sales of agricultural commodities. Even consumers have to fork out considerable amount of money for food.