Meat deal with Iran
The Meat Board has completed an agreement with Iran to sell about 140,000 tonnes of lamb from the present season’s production. A spokesman for the Meat Board said the deal was worth between $3OO million and $4OO million. Last season, New Zealand exported 113,000 tonnes of lamb to Iran, and the previous year 41,000 tonnes was traded in an oil-for-lamb deal.
The new contract represents about a third of the total lamb production of
about 420,000 tonnes expected this season.
The chairman of the Meat Board, Mr Adam Begg, said the board was very pleased that it had reached an agreement with Iran so early in the season. “Now that the agreement is finalised the world will know we are in a strong selling position and are well under way with plans to improve the image of lamb and to improve its position in what can only be described as an extraordinarily competitive marketplace,” he said.
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