The status of the last concrete silo in Iran

Director of
Transformation and Food Industry of the Jihad-e-Keshavarzi Organization of
Semnan province, said: “This great silo will be exploited next year,”
with satisfaction from the constructional operations relating to the
100,000-tonne Garmsar Silo.

On the
sidelines of the visit of the representatives of the Islamic Development Bank
and a group of officials who had traveled to Garmsar in order to assess the
physical progress of the project, Rahmatollah Kashi said that Garmsar Silo is
under construction with the participation of the Islamic Development Bank and
the exchange facility of 18.66 million euros and an average of 17.5 billion
tomans is being built.

Director of
the Food and Drug Industry of Jihad-e-Keshavarzi province said that the project
is the latest concrete silo that is being built on government credits, adding
that the silo was the last concrete silo in Iran, could resolve a major part of
the problems with the requirements for the strategic storage of wheat in the
country.

Mr. Kashi
expressed hope that next year, wheat delivery will begin at Garmsar Silo, and
this large silo will be exploited.

He evaluated
the physical progress of the project satisfactorily, and noted: upon completion
of the operation and preparation of this project, a portion of the wheat
purchased in the large silo will be stored in 1398.