TEHRAN - The Tehran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture (TCCIMA)’s Agriculture and Process Industries Committee held its 21st meeting on Saturday during which constructive interaction between the private sector and Agriculture Ministry was emphasized.

The meeting was attended by Head of TCCIMA Agriculture Committee Kaveh Zargaran, other members of the committee, and Deputy Agriculture Minister for Trade Development Mohsen Shiravand, as well as the representatives of some private companies active in the agriculture sector, the TCCIMA portal reported.

In this meeting, the private sector representatives raised some issues and problems that the businesses active in the agricultural sector are currently facing, and then Shiravand answered some questions.

Attendees of the meeting stressed the positive impacts of having a single-rate foreign currency in the country’s economic system and considered some of the government's interventions in the business and trade sector harmful to the production sector as well as the consumers.

Ahmadreza Farshchian, a member of the TCCIMA Agriculture Committee, also said that the export of agricultural products and Iran's share in the global market is decreasing and emphasized that the downward trend of the export of agricultural products in Iran is due to the implementation of some forex policies and the lack of reform.

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