Analysis of protection policies on oil-seeds in Iran.
2006
Nuri, Kiyumars
The important portion of cooking oil in Iran is accrued by import and only small part of it is domestic production. The main products for oil extraction are cottonseed, soybean, sunflower and safflower, but at recent years, rapeseed has been an important role between oil seeds. Iran is one of the biggest oil importers in the world. Therefore, the Jihad-e-agriculture ministry is going to increase oil seeds production in 10-year plans (2005-2014). The main purpose of this study has been to analyze the protection policies in oil seeds production in Iran. It is to mention that the data used for analysis is based on questionnaires filled by the Jihad-e-agriculture ministry during 1998-2002 for oil seeds production cost data. Policy Analysis Matrix (PAM) is an effective tool for measure the impact of government policies on the private and social profitability of economic activities that was applied in the research. The results of this study show that, in the first year of 10-year plans, oil seeds production was not successful and did not reach to the per-determined goals, especially rapeseed could not access its role in the first year of the 10-year plans. The results indicate that oil seeds have comparative advantages in the provinces, which are main regions for production of these products. In general, government policies did not have supportive aspects. To follow the goals of the 10-year plans, it is necessary to have: a) effective protection of oil seeds production in the country, b) systematic programming for the main agricultural products, because with separate plan for each product, it is impossible to follow all of the different goals in one area.
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