According to the International Stone Exhibition of Iran, the "stone to kick someone" proverb is about being supportive, biased and sad sometimes being exaggerated, and the "stone" of neighborhoods in the central province badly needs support, even Its an exaggerated type.

Neighborhoods are full of beauty and beauty, but most of the city is known for its flower and vegetation, and perhaps because of the lack of necessary infrastructure in the neighborhoods, the city's other tourism and economic advantages and disadvantages are neglected. There are rich stone mines in the belt of the city,
 
However, the "flower" of Mahallat city did not hit the city as much as it should! The largest travertine reserves in the Middle East are welcomed in Mahallat. Neighborhood city despite producing over two million tons of travertine stone and become the center of stone production in the country with two hundred and fifty units of stone production in four settlements and industrial areas and enjoy hundred and ten rich stone mines and eighty travertine mines with employment created. For over 6,000 people, and despite having the largest specialized stone exhibition space in the world, the signs of economic development resulting from such a large capacity in the city still cannot be seen.
 
Central Province's stone production hub in Mahallat produces about fifty percent of Iran's total travertine, and the city's favorable potential in producing marble, Chinese, Christian, Tranix and Tramite (crude stone and travertine) building stone has made Iran the top Ninth among eighteen other countries in the world in terms of travertine.
 
Despite such a huge local capacity and the variety of stone production in the mines of this city, and the availability of huge travertine reserves in the country, the question is why the locality of the neighborhood has remained a privileged feature of becoming a stone production hub, an important feature That Isfahan will or will be the predominant ballad in the city of Mahallat.

Behnam Nikfar, Managing Director of Iran Stone Exhibition, said: Isfahan has long been selected as the largest mineral province in the country due to the large number of stone quarries and out of a total of about 6,000 stone quarries, more than two thousand units are located in the province.
 
Behnam Nikfar, referring to the activity of two hundred and thirty stone excavation units in Mahalat city stated: Although the capacity of Mahalat city in the field of mines is not comparable to Isfahan province, but due to some advantages the Central Province has recently been recognized by the Ministry of Industry as The province was identified as the rock of the country.
 
He noted the high diversity of stone production in Isfahan province as the reason for the selection of this province from ancient times as the Iranian stone production pole and said: Due to the impressive activity of Mahalat city in stone field and setting up of international stone exhibition in this city, Markazi province as province The country rock has been chosen.
 
Managing Director of Yeshang Exhibition of Neighborhoods and Member of Commerce Chamber of Markazi Province further said: High efficiency, coherence of activities and performance, positive activities in chamber of commerce and presenting comments and practical solutions and most importantly holding international exhibition of building stone in this The city is one of the advantages of choosing the central province as the designated rock province of the country.
 
The dilemma of administrative bureaucracy and non-expert state law
 
He said that administrative bureaucracy in recent years and changing the supportive view of mines in this city has been a factor in slowing the development of stone production in the city said: Due to this type of activity some semi-active mines in the city stopped and was closed. And the imposition of high taxes and the setting up of non-expert state-owned rights destroyed the region's mines.
 
Nikfar went on to point out that the neighborhood stone market is selling, saying: "If the processing stone is manufactured in the mines of the city, it will introduce a better brand of the neighborhood and will accelerate the economic boom in stone production."
 
Lack of proper sales market
 
He said: The most important weakness of the stone produced in the neighborhoods is the lack of proper sales market and perhaps the productive stone of this city when it is transferred to Isfahan province for processing can be used with a brand other than the city brand.
 
A member of the commission of stone of the chamber of commerce of the country emphasized: Due to the large number of quarrying units and the progress of mines in Isfahan province, the quarrying units in these two provinces are increasing and hence the product sales are more economical and because of their low cost The cost of transportation due to the shortage of access routes, the two provinces meet their needs for the nearest and nearest mines, so they are less inclined to buy from neighborhoods.
 
Wood was not a spare part of the stone industry wheels
 
He said: Another major problem in the development of stone mines is the potholes which are worn out and therefore need spare parts. Since the spares of the stone machinery are smuggled into Iran, there are many obstacles in the way of mineral development. The city has created.
 
"In the past, machinery repair was done every ten years because of quality parts, but now it has been reduced to two years in the best condition, and repairs are expensive," he said.
 
He pointed to the VAT levied by the government and said: "The goods that are smuggled into the country should not be taxed but the government is demanding and invoicing the invoice while the invoice is not exported and this is a problem." It disrupts work efficiency and stops the development process.
 
Twelve percent of the world's travertine reserves are in Mahallat / Twelve Years Back

Hojatoleslam Alireza Salimi, MP of Neighborhoods and Delijan in the Majlis also rejected the issue of backwardness of the country's stone production centers and the city's huge stone production capacity and turning it into a travertine mine pole, said: The country's stone factories are operating and operating in the city, making up 60 percent of the country's travertine mines and 12 percent of the world's travertine.

Alireza Salimi went on to address some of the shortcomings of this city in the field of mining and excavation and pointed to the old technology of factories said: Technology used in factories in this city is about twelve years behind the technology of the world which is needed with the support The material and spiritual problems of this defect.

Empty loop connecting neighborhoods with world / Turkish dominion over forty percent stone market

He pointed to the active role of the Ministry of Industries and Mines in the field of marketing and said: Nowadays stone of Mahallat city is produced by the private sector and Ministry of Industry and Mines has not been able to link Mahallah city stone producers with world markets and is well responsible for this role. It has not come.

He said that Turkey in the neighborhood of Iran has gained more than 40 percent of the world stone market, while Iran's share of the world market is very small and accounts for 80 percent of the country's domestic stone production.

The representative of the people in the House of People called for changing attitudes in the field of stone development of the country and said that changing attitudes is necessary for the acquisition of international markets.

A little embarrassing!

He noted the lack of cooperation in the economic field of embassies in this field and said: Active cooperation in the economic field of embassies will contribute to export dynamics and acquisition of global market share. State-of-the-art economic experts and embassies must pass on world information and market need to country rock activists, define the consumer market as needed, and enhance export work.

Salimi pointed to the undesirable cooperation of the banking system with the activists of the stone sector and said that the granting of high-rate facilities to the local miners prevents the development and supply of goods at a reasonable price, while in other countries the banking facilities in this sector are granted at 2% rate. To be. The current trend in the country will make it impossible to compete in world markets.

Heavy tax breaks producer's waist

He pointed to the lack of flexibility in the tax system of the country in the taxation of stone producers and said: Stricter tax incentives have taken more work from producers and in other words, the producer's waist is broken by heavy taxes.

He said: The current problems have made production expensive in our country and the stone field is no exception, in such conditions competitiveness disappears.

The government has a solid roadmap for market management

Representing the people of Mahallat and Delijan, emphasizing that government policies have a direct role in the boom or stagnation of the industrial sector, he said the government's decision in this area is not entirely clear and with a jump in inflation both during the boom period and in the stagnant sector. Seems serious damage. The government must have a solid roadmap for market management.

He referred to the definition of subdivisions in the area of ​​stone and said: Fortunately, Mahallat has succeeded in this area and the project of producing paper from stone has begun in the city and it is necessary for the government to provide supportive policies and equipment for investment. The large amount of support that has been created in this area and the necessary cooperation in this area, unfortunately, at present the lack of government cooperation has led to a significant slowdown in the implementation of the project.

Salimi said: Mahallah city has the necessary infrastructure to become the country's stone pole and given the advantages of defining suitable subdivisions in the city, government support for the area and the industry is a necessity. If this supportive view is to be doubled, it will certainly take the precincts out of other centers of stone production in the country.

Eight hundred mines are inactive

Hossein Soroush, secretary general of the Iranian Stone Association and a member of the National Stone Policy Council, also referred to the activity of two thousand and seven hundred stone miners in the country stated: More than eight hundred stone mines are inactive due to the economic conditions of the country and the rest are almost active.
 
Hossein Soroush pointed to the production capacity of twenty-five million tonnes in the country's stone mines, adding: 6,600 processing units in the country are operating in five major rocky provinces including Isfahan, Fars, Lorestan, Markazi and Khorasan. Isfahan province has its own.
 
Fifteen percent share of Mahaleh city from crude production and stone processing
 
He said the production capacity in the processing sector was more than one hundred and sixty million tons per year and said: "Fifteen percent of the country's crude production and processing capacity is allocated to Mahaleh."
 
The deputy head of the House of Industry and Mining in Markazi Province and the head of the Mahalatan Association of Stone Makers pointed out that the city has the most modern stone production lines in the world. Maximum, best quality travertine is produced and marketed locally.
 
He emphasized: Unfortunately, Mahalat city has the third or fourth rank in extraction of stone mines with these potentials and competencies and the distance of this area to the rocky areas of the country is very high.
 
Iran's 1% share in global stone processing market!
 
He pointed to the capacity of 700 million square meters of stone production in the country and stated that the country's annual need for stone is about 80 million square meters and the rest has export capacity but the situation of Iranian stone export statistics is complicated and Iran's share of the market is complicated. The world in processing is about one percent.
 
Soroush cited China and Italy as the world's largest crude consumers, saying that countries such as Lebanon, India and Malaysia are next.
 
Challenge called cheap stone export
 
He pointed out that Turkey is the largest exporter of stone in the world, which is located in the neighborhood of Iran. He said that the major export of Iranian stone is cheap stones, which is a serious challenge for export of this product in our country.
 
Exporting stone to politics soap
 
According to the rock activist, Iran's failure to export the stone is a result of political problems and tensions that exist with many countries and that a stable market cannot be established in interaction with other countries. The wrong policy in the field of stone has made it impossible for us to introduce the Iranian rock to the world, despite its enormous capacity and merits. A country like Turkey, which can be a model for Iran, has been in the stone market since 1985 and is the second largest seller of stone in the world after China, exporting more than forty percent of its crude extraction and about 80 percent of processed production.
 
The head of Mahalat City Rockers Guild stated: Despite the advantages that Iranian competitors enjoy, it has been tried to prevent the Maharashtra stone brand from going the isolation path and with the international registration of travertine stone its renowned neighborhoods around the world, such as research institutes. And the rock cluster has helped introduce the brand.
 
Establishing the most modern stone production lines in the neighborhood
 
He pointed to the advantage of Mahalat city stone over other cities of Isfahan even and said: The most modern stone production lines in Mahallat city are located and the number of modern city lines with more than two hundred factories compared to Isfahan province with two thousand activities. The factory is far greater. Therefore, increasing the number of processing and quarrying factories in this city will shift the country from Isfahan to the neighborhood.
 
The government has stopped producing
 
The secretary general of the Iranian Stone Association called for more investment in Mahallat city in order to achieve development goals, relying on modern production lines and rich travertine stone mines. He stated that the only factor to succeed in this field and achieve the goals is to increase the number of factories. Active in the stone industry is to give up the sovereignty of the producer, in other words to abandon the producer state, and to allow the producer to operate in an independent policy rather than obstructing laws and administrative bureaucracy. Increase zinc production day by day.
 
He emphasized that the priority of the government should be genuine support for production, stating that it should not be stopped by political statements and personal preferences and the export market should be removed from the political game of Iran. The government should treat the producer more kindly.
 
"Despite all these problems, we have been able to provide the proper infrastructure in the city," said a member of the country's stone policy council, noting that the local stone industry is in trouble.
 
The consequence of currency fluctuations is the rock skirt
 
He described the biggest problem in the Mahalat district as the inability to supply the raw stone and pointed to the hectic prices of raw stone sales and said: besides some service problems such as electricity, water and gas, as well as problems in the banking, taxation and supply system The social and…, lack of liquidity in stoning units, workers' dilemmas and market downturns have also exacerbated currency fluctuations.
 
According to the report, policy weakness in all aspects of production on the one hand, and lack of security in production on the other hand, have frustrated the producer and deprived the producer of motivation to work in this field. Ensuring security for economic activity is an important issue that should be on the agenda of officials. One should not go hand in hand with capacityAbove the stone of Mahallat city should be thrown, considering the high potential and potential of this city to increase the support of Mahallah city stone which accounts for 15 percent of the total capacity of the country, to a city of fifty-three thousand people making 14 percent of the world's travertine production. And 60 percent of Iran's travertine produces and enjoys this privileged position, and the central province does not miss the development train on which the other rocky provinces of the country embark.
 
* ISNA