Mr. Hadi Mehrabadi, CEO of Tejarat Daneh Keihan Company

Maintaining the country’s food security next year depends on three conditions:

1. Continuous uninterrupted supply of foreign exchange
2. Access to stable credit lines for reputable importers
3. Preventing liquidity from being locked up at the end of the production chain

If these three points are realized, a serious crisis in access to inputs is not expected; however, next year will be a critical year from the perspective of financial management and supply flow stability.

 

Food security is not guaranteed by price fixing, but by currency transparency, financial discipline, and healthy liquidity circulation throughout the entire production chain. Currency policymaking must be such that economic actors can plan, because predictable stability is more important than a low nominal rate.