Naser Nabi Pour, the regime’s chairman of the Poultry Union, has warned that the prices of chicken and eggs will see a significant increase next year.
In a report on rising prices of certain food items, including eggs and chicken, Didbaniran website quoted market activists stating that due to rising costs of feed and veterinary medications essential for poultry farming, an increase in the market price of these products is imminent.
In this context, Naser Nabi Pour told the website that the recent significant rise in foreign currency exchange rates will begin affecting the prices of chicken and eggs in approximately six months.
Didbaniran reported concerns that the increase in the subsidized exchange rate in the spring of 2025, along with the long-term impact of recent fluctuations in the free-market dollar rate, will raise the prices of essential goods such as chicken and eggs.
Ali Ebrahimi, the director of Iran’s National Union of Meat Poultry Farmers also told Didbaniran that with the increase in the dollar rate in the free market, the national currency’s value drops, potentially fueling the smuggling of chicken and eggs.
Ebrahimi added, “Currently, the price of chicken per kilogram in Iran’s neighboring countries ranges between $2 to $2.20, or approximately 1.4 to 1.5 million rials, whereas in the Iranian market, the price is under 800,000 rials. This price gap already encourages smuggling of chicken to neighboring countries through various methods.”
These warnings come as, in recent days, Iran’s Statistical Center published food inflation data for October, indicating that the “milk, cheese, and eggs” category led in one-month inflation.
Accordingly, for the month in question, the “milk, cheese, and eggs” category recorded a monthly inflation rate of 4.7 percent, leading to food price increases, while inflation in the “bread and grains” category was 3.7 percent.
Reports indicate that the Iranian regime, by pursuing a policy of unifying exchange rates, aims to align the government-set currency rate with the free-market rate, which will impact the final prices of imported goods.
The government also intends to increase the rate of 285,000 rials per dollar for essential goods, which will drive up the prices of food items, including meat and chicken, in the coming year.
Analysts believe that these government decisions, combined with currency fluctuations and inflationary pressures, will ultimately lead to a sharp rise in prices.
