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IRAN Sanctioned
While the news from Iran has been dominated lately by the ever increasing talk of nuclear activi- ties and threats of further sanctions by the west, behind the scenes the Iranian mushroom industry has been digging deep and progressing it’s business as best as it can. By Rodney Barrett
Iranian mushroom growers have been struggling un- der the latest sanctions placed on their country by the west which has increased all their costs dramatically, especially those for importing products such as casing, spawn and machinery parts. Over the past 10-12 years they had become used to receiving these product wit- hout too much difficulty, but that has now been changed and it is not possible to deal with the supply companies and the banks. However, they refuse to lie down and be beaten and two of the largest mushroom composters and growers are now busily engaged in enlarging their production facilities.
Expansion One company, Malard, is building 6 Bunkers each of 45 m long x 8m wide by 6 m high and 6 extra Phase II tunnels each of 150 ton fill capacity. This will double their compost output to between 1,200 and 1,300 tons Phase II per week. At the same time this company is
also enlarging its growing capacity by another 8 rooms each with 1,008 m2 shelf area, bringing their Phase II compost fill up to 475 tons per week, 200 tons of which will be filled in bulk onto 6 high shelves. The expansion will also allow them to sell about 700 tons of Phase II in blocks to other small to medium sized growers. Another company, Javaneh, will also be increasing com- post production by another 700 tons of Phase II weekly, some of which will be for some new farms they want to build near other large cities and the balance will be for sale to mushroom grower’s country wide. They are also busy building a new spawn laboratory. They have to start producing local spawn themselves as the current supplies they go to collect from Italy are also becoming more expensive. The Dutch company Dalsem has been partly responsi- ble for these larger developments, either as designer and/or a supplier of the equipment and machinery. This company has many years of experience working
Inside one of the rooms in a new farm of Malard.
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