MOSCOW: Iran’s media said on Tuesday that a leading domestic dairy company has received the authorization to export its products to Russia.
Four major provincial offshoots of Iran Dairy Industries Company (IDIC) – Pegah Fars, Pegah Tehran, Pegah Golpayegan and Pegah Isfahan – will start exporting their products to Russia from 20 January 2015.
IDIC Managing Director Ali Roomi said the proceedings to receive the authorization for exports to Russia had started last year.
Roomi added that four other Pegah offshoots are also expected to be given the green-light over the same line of business in the near future.
The products that will be exported in Russia will include powder dairy products, different kinds of cheese and certain sterilized items.
“Russia is a major market in which a great opportunity for Iranian companies to increase their products has been created as a result of the sanctions against the country,” said Roomi.
Officials in Moscow announced last October that the grounds have been prepared for the shipment of Iranian dairy products to Russia amid the country’s ban on such imports from Europe.
Russia’s agricultural supervisory body, Rosselkhoznadzor, said at the time that this followed a successful inspection of the quality of Iran’s dairy products.
Russia has been looking for new sources of agricultural products after banning imports of fruit, vegetables, fish and dairy products from Europe, the US, Canada and Australia.
Alexei Alexeyenko, an assistant to Rosselkhoznadzor chief, has been quoted by the Russian as saying that Russia will have to buy dairy products, especially cheese, from other countries for some time.
Alexeyenko added that his country will have to buy dairy products, especially cheese, from other countries for some time.
