EghtesadOnline: There were 47.3 million sheep and lamb s as well as 17 million goats and goat kids in Iran's livestock farms as of the Iranian month ending June 20, registering an increase of 0.1% in the number of former but a decline of 2.9% in the latter compared with the same period of last year, the Statistical Center of Iran reported.

EghtesadOnline: The smuggling of livestock from West Azarbaijan cities of Oshnavieh and Piranshahr to Sulaymaniyah in Iraqi Kurdistan is on the rise, says Ali Asghar Maleki, the head of Lamb Producers’ Union.