Iran's Global Ranking in Egg Production Improves

“The importance of egg production in countries, in addition to its nutritional value, is important in terms of price to provide it to the society members,” said Mohammad Ebrahim Hassannejad, the deputy minister of agricultural jihad for livestock production affairs.

“In our country, the poultry industry, both meat and egg-laying, has been developed with the efforts of investors and the support of the government, and considering the population of our country, it is not possible to meet the domestic needs with imports, and this need should be met with domestic production,” he added.

Hassannejad underlined that the potential capacity of commercial egg production is 1.6 million tons per year, adding, “The egg production record in Iran will be broken this year with production of 1.3 million tons of eggs raising the country’s ranking to the ninth place.”

Iranian experts have been trying to improve the nutritional values of eggs in addition to increasing its production.

In a relevant development last November, an Iranian researcher underlined the importance of zinc and manganese supplements for the body, proposing their appliance during egg production process.

“My Ph.D. thesis was about organic supplements of manganese and zinc, and we focused on two issues, first, the production of eggs enriched with manganese and zinc and these elements can enter the body via eggs,” Mohammad Reza Khoshbin told ANA.

“These two elements are important for the body and manganese and zinc can form the first defense barrier of the body against free radicals and prevent cancer in humans by forming superoxide and tri mutase enzymes. If we can bring manganese and zinc into the body with food, we will have a higher natural absorption compared to pills and chemicals,” he added.

“In the second step, I witnessed that when the laying hens units in the country reach the end of production period, the shells of the eggs grow thin and fragile, and a lot of damage is caused to the hen farmer, and he/she is forced to slaughter the laying hens and enter the pellet cycle again, and this causes great damage to the laying hen industry in the country,” Khoshbin said.

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He noted that certain methods can be used to make the egg shells stronger in old hens and extend the egg production period up to 120 weeks, adding, “This supplement has a positive effect on both shell’s strength and egg production, and with this supplement, you can prevent the imports of foreign supplements and help the laying hen industry in Iran.”