Iranian Economy
and Tragedy of Wastes

Based on the statistical studies in various industrial, agricultural, and mineral fields, the production and consumption ratio of wastes does not match the standards in our country; so, it had formed a catastrophe in many fields.
One of the parliament representatives announced that the fuel consumption of the cars in Iran is twice as much as the global rate; and so, he emphasizes to use the global standards while car production. He also believes our gas-burner vehicles have not been produced based on a good standard; and they have a high fuel consumption rate. Meanwhile, the related efficiency of many of our power plants is less than 15 percent, and this percentage reaches 35 to 40 percent for our new power plants. As the head of energy commission in parliament, he states further that the efficiency average of our power plants is between 32 and 33 percent; and the 70 % of the remaining energy is lost, causing pollution. In addition, 20% of the produced electricity in power stations is wasted during transmission to the consumption centers. He continues saying while the sum of foreign exchange income and financial income is about 70 billion dollars, the rate of energy loss and energy wastes amounts 45 billion dollars; and this has caused the country’s economic status a big problem.
It should be taken into consideration that gas consumption and smuggled petrol amount were run to 75 billion liter per day in 1385; and this expense was increased to 90 percent in special days of the year. It is said that the imported petrol equals to the petrol which is smuggled over the country’s borders abroad.
The head of fruit and vegetable exporters’ union states: “25% to 30% of our produced fruits are thrown away as wastes. This is bitter statistical news, as a result of which, a high pressure is opposed on the cost price of fruits and vegetables. And we will not achieve a reasonable exports growth if the wastes expenses can not be decreased.
When we find out that Iran suffers from water shortage, we face the terrible view of the wastes tragedy. The damages of fruits and other agricultural products cause both loss of human force, and loss of water. On other hand, statistics shows 40% of water sources are wasted now in agriculture. Iranian agricultural section uses water for more than 90% while having the least efficiency unfortunately. And according to statistics a low efficiency is understood in different fields of agriculture, industry, mineral.
As statistics shows, our farming products amounts about 13 to 14 tons per hectare; however, the standard rate for such a production is 26 to 30 tons per hectare (twice as much) in developed countries that use the scientific principles. The Water continues to waste in a situation that a number of our countrymen suffer from lack of drinkable water in many provinces.
The managing director of water and rural sewerage of Tehran province announced:” The villages located in Tehran enjoy 45/1% of the healthy drinkable water.”
 A published research based statistics drawn by higher educational center of Grain Industry from Comprehensive Scientific Employment University says that the government pays 22 thousand billion Rials subsidy (2.340.000.000$) for the process of wheat production; given 30 % wastes, in fact, 660 billion Tomans (702.000.000$) of this amount is thrown off uselessly. Meanwhile, manifested on the statistics of the budget rule for 1385  by the country’s Planning and Management Administration, one trillion ninety two and seventy eight million rials(201.000.000$) was paid for flour. Of course, some experts believe that the major reason of the problems, which directly affects the bread quality, is the subsidized flour distribution. The so-called subsidy was about twenty five thousand and eighty seven billion Rials (2.752.000.000$), in the budget of 1385, which has been increased about 600 billion Tomans (638.000.000$), that equals 31%, more than the amount in 1384.
Referring to the country’s 30% bread wastes and the point that our wheat consumption per capita is at least twice as much as the amount found in other countries, the ex-director general of Trade affairs office in Planning and Management Administration added: “The major cause of such problems in Iran is related to efforts to have a continuously unreal low price of flour.” According to the relevant statistics released in recent years, a high subsidy has been allocated to the wheat and flour.
An expert of House and Urban Construction says: “The efficient lifetime of constructions in Iran is estimated less than both the ones in other countries and the ones within current global standards. He counted some of the main reasons of the decrease in lifetime of buildings in Iran as the instability of constructional rules, the application of traditional methods and lack of comprehensive constructional policies.
Unfortunately, Wastes Tragedy is evident in all aspects of our unhealthy economy.
A member of Tehran University Scientific Mission says: “Due not to have a correct strategy for its development, Iran has gone under loss of its genius minds which equals to the sum of its oil income for 100 years. He also states:”Recently one million of almost 30 year old educated Iranian people have immigrated. Iran. Having such a volume of capitals escape, Iran has sustained a loss of its inefficient economic system.
Not having entered to the scientific centered economy, Iran has been inattentive to value human being and human resources as the most important factor of success in countries. So, it faces the impolitic immigration and its genius people’s escape.
Certainly in order to have a healthy economy and to avoid more damages, we need to face the above-discussed issues by means of research and science.
We hope that our government and our people will take more substantial steps decisively to avoid further damages to the corporal and the spiritual capitals of our country on this very new year.
With a deep hope for such a day,