The government pays 1,000 tomans per kilo for flour, while it spent more than 56,000 tomans!
Atallah Hashemi, head of the National Fund for Wheat Growers of Iran:
When the buying, selling and supplying of wheat and flour are monopolized by the government, it is natural that the government is the buyer and the seller at the same time and problems arise.
The government buys 49,500 tomans per kilogram of wheat this year, but including the costs of silos, mills, transportation and other side costs, the total price of each kilo of flour for the government reaches more than 56,000 tomans. However, he gives flour to bakeries for a thousand tomans per kilo.
Such a large gap between the finished price and the supply price is a basis for violation, profits, loss of quality and waste of wheat and flour.
The government should indicate which deciles of society it is going to support. If he intends to subsidize bread for Haft Dach, he must do this support intentionally and based on a scientific mechanism, not distribute the subsidy at the beginning of the chain and it is not known whether it will reach the final consumer or not.