Iran to Use Potentials of Knowledge-Based Companies to Develop Poultry Industry
This agreement which focuses on the optimal use of the capacities and resources of the parties, aims to meet technological needs in the bottlenecks of the agricultural value chain, develop new methods of processing and using agricultural waste and by-products, increase the role of transformative technologies in the livestock, poultry and aquatic feed sectors and develop the market and scale of knowledge-based products and services.
Based on the agreement, the Food and Agriculture Development Headquarters is also committed to review the technological priorities introduced by the Federation and provide consulting services to facilitate the knowledge-based process and receive support from the Vice-Presidency for the legal and real members.
In a relevant development in August, experts at a knowledge-based company in Iran had successfully produced different types of livestock and poultry medicines for the first time in the country.
"Our knowledge-based company with the aim of producing medicines used in the country's livestock and poultry industry and also exporting the medicines to the regional countries of was established in 1998. The company’s first phase of the factory was established on a land of 12,000 square meters and an infrastructure of 14,000 square meters located in the industrial city of Hashtgerd near the capital Tehran," said Farzad Zainali, the CEO of the knowledge-based company.
He furthur said that their company has seven completely separate production lines for various forms of animal medicine, adding, “Injectable solutions, types of injectable suspensions, sterile injectable powders of the beta-lactam group (penicillins and cephalosporins), different types of oral solutions and suspensions, powders soluble in water and mixed in different drug groups, including different antibiotics, insecticides, painkillers and anti-inflammatories, anti-allergy drugs and antihistamines, water-soluble and fat-soluble vitamins and different kinds of minerals in the form of powder, oral solution and injection solutions, all kinds of electrolytes and injectable and oral serums are being produced in the factory.”
According to him, the company's quality control and research and development laboratories are equipped with all accurate measuring devices to detect and analyze all types of raw materials and pharmaceutical products.
He added that spectrophotometers, FTIR, GC, HPLC, polarimetry and other devices needed by pharmaceutical industry laboratories are some of the equipment and facilities there.
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