Iran

The economy of Iran confronted with the new position in the world as:
• Decreasing role of government in economic affairs
• High growth of private sectors
• Unjustified sanction against Iran especially in economic aspects
All of them impelled the economy of Iran into high inflation. The policy of new government is to bring down the rate of inflation and to restore a reasonable growth rate with less inflation. The policy had a clear consequences and it was stagnation.
In this way what’s the role of agriculture section?
Without doubt, this section can consume more raw materials, human forces and kinds of capital in order to produce and prepare goods and services for other sections. And as known, a reasonable growth rate in this section can be attained. But what I intend to mention is the share of sericulture activities in creating welfare and wealth.
• Sericulture activities include more than fifty thousand potential families in the entire Iran.
• More than 1500 looms and four big factories are producing kinds of silk products.
• The centre for sericulture development has been created.
• This centre protects sericulture activities and designs governmental policies in this area buying fresh cocoon that have been produced by farmers with guaranteed price and suggest effective custom tariff in order to protect farmers.
• Sericulture training is promoted at university level.
Other activities have remained in Iran silkworm rearing cooperation. Sericulture and manufacturing silk products in Iran are among subsidiary activities together with the main occupations of the farmers in each region, also with economic incentive and the use of part of rural labour force can bring a fairly good source of income to the rural household during a short- term period. Parallel with the technological development and industrialization of the activity and its proper expansion in proportion to the climatic conditions of different regions, it will be possible to exploit it and gain more suitable benefits form it as a proper program for eliminating some of the social and economic problems, particularly meeting the foreign exchange needs of silkworm keeping nations.
This new policy began after the ISC meeting in Chiang Mai caused to create a stable growth and development in sericulture fields. Increasing the cocoon production above 1000 tonne is a new record in recent decade as a result of this policy and would continue stably.