Ali Akbar Mehrfar, Iran’s Deputy Minister of Agriculture, spoke about agreements and joint initiatives with the Russian Federation. He also commended the participation of Tehran and Moscow in agriculture and industry.

Ali Akbar Mehrfar said about this memorandum. About a year and a half ago, Russia and Kazakhstan had talks about wheat with us. In Iran, given the plans that have been made, wheat production is in a way that meets the domestic needs of the country. But we had talks with Russia and Kazakhstan that we could use each other’s capacities for other countries in the world, including that we have a strong infrastructure in the flour industry in Iran, which, in addition to modernity, produces for twice the domestic demand of the country, and our region has about 5 million flour trades. It was supposed that, according to Iran’s laws (temporary admission), we would import wheat into flour and export it. In this regard, Iranian companies, Russians and Kazakhs can partner with each other and even form partnerships. In the meantime, the Kazakhs were more inclined to use the logistics and transit of Iran to deliver goods to the customer.

This started about a year ago, there were many talks in Moscow, Tehran, Astane and even in other countries, until we agreed on drafting this document for about two months in Tehran and we hope it will be useful for the trade development of the three countries.

He said that the volume of wheat and flour should be determined by the private sector, which means that we have prepared a field for the private companies of all three countries to come from and declare it. However, public corporations can also use this field if they wish, but most of this activity will be privately owned. For example, in Iran, the factories are in the hands of the private sector. But in Iran, Russia and Kazakhstan there is a state-owned corporation that can participate in this process, but the doors are open to the private sector and will over time grow and volume will rise.