Working Capital Surge in Livestock Production Post Currency Liberalization

In response to the increase in meat prices, instead of these regulatory authorities going to meat production and supply centers and dealing with the main culprits of the increase in meat prices by comparing the purchase price of live livestock and the supply of meat, they are going to the producers. They have issued permits for the widespread import of live livestock.

It seems that government decision-makers are unfamiliar with the concept of sustainable food security and do not know that consumer security depends on producer security. They do not realize that in the current situation of the country, despite external threats, maintaining and strengthening the country’s food production capacity is a vital necessity, and how widespread the import of live livestock will be to the production sector. Apparently, those in charge of the matter, who have shown by not formulating support packages that they have no will to maintain red meat production, have resorted to the only thing they are very good at, namely imports, to compensate for the increase in meat prices caused by the government’s hasty action.