The delinquent bakeries will reach the end of the line with the smartness of the flour and bread subsidy

The implementation of the first phase of the flour and bread subsidy smart plan and the installation of card readers in bakeries in the country started at the end of June. According to the latest statistics, 98% of the bakeries are covered by the flour and bread smart system, and only one to two percent due to technical and technical problems. Legal, they have not been able to install Nan’s smart card reader, which will be fixed soon.

Recently, Mr. Jalal, advisor to the Minister of Economy, announced the loss of 5 thousand tons of flour daily and said: According to the monitoring of smart card readers, 5 thousand tons of flour equivalent to about 50 million loaves of bread are lost in bakeries every day. This is while the head of the union of traditional bakers denies this issue.

Many experts in the field of flour believe that as long as subsidized flour is available to bakery units, flour will be withdrawn from bakery units and abuse will occur; Therefore, liberalization is the only way to end this story, because intelligence will partially prevent rent and corruption.

Full implementation of flour and bread subsidy smartening is a way for transparency

Mr. Arslan Ghasemi, head of the agricultural commission of the cooperative chamber, said: The purpose of making bread smart is to move towards a transparent economy. I am not aware of the statistical bases of the adviser to the Minister of Economy that 5 thousand tons of flour are lost every day.

According to him, we did not move towards transparency and prevention of rent with the implementation of smart bread, because if this issue was realized, we did not see this amount of flour leaving the people’s table.

Ghasemi says: With the full implementation of the plan, requirements must be met because during the process of the last 8 to 9 months, the intelligentization plan has been started as a trial, and the people involved must analyze the issue and examine its strengths and weaknesses.

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Mr. Ataale Hashemi, the head of the National Wheat Farmers Foundation, said: 21,000 tons of flour is the country’s bread consumption quota per day, and it is not reasonable to lose 5,000 tons of this amount, equivalent to a quarter of the country’s quota.

According to him, due to the subsidized flour, there are losses in the country’s bakeries, but not to the extent of 5 thousand tons. Therefore, the adviser to the Minister of Economy should provide documentation in this regard.

Hashemi says: Making bread smart only solves 10% of the possible problems and abuses of flour leaving the bakery units and the current losses at the level of the bakeries. But in general, as long as flour is available to the units at a subsidized price, there is rent and corruption.

The head of the National Wheat Farmers Foundation said: The problem will be solved when the flour is provided to the bakery units at full price and the bread subsidy is paid to the household account.

According to him, in the current situation, the government gives a subsidy of 13,500 to 14,000 tomans per kilogram of flour delivered to the bakery units, and due to the significant price difference, it is obvious that the losses will continue and on the other hand, the quality of the bread will not be good.

This official continued: We have stated many times that the government should determine the price of flour once and for all and give flour to the producer at the full price.

He stated that the intelligentization does not have much effect in preventing violations of bakery units and said: If the government wants to prevent violations through the implementation of intelligence, it should have an inspector for each unit; Therefore, the intelligentization of housing is partial and the basic solution of distribution is based on supply and demand mechanism and support of vulnerable groups.

More than 2,000 bakeries do not exist in the country
Mr. Alireza Nazari, a member of the Parliament’s Agriculture Commission, said: According to annual statistics, we experienced a 2.5% increase in flour consumption in the country, which should have been added to this year’s flour consumption.

He said that 140,000 tons of flour is consumed in the country every month. Since the beginning of the year, 120,000 tons of flour have been saved in the country, and with the completion of the intelligentization process, it is expected that we will save another 120,000 tons of flour.

Nazari continued: More than 2,000 bakeries in the country, which did not exist externally and only existed on paper, received a quota of flour and only used rent before the smartening of flour.

A member of the Agriculture Commission says: With the implementation of the second step of the intelligentization plan, the consumption of flour will decrease by 240,000 to 250,000 tons compared to last year, and it is obvious that this amount is smuggled abroad or the flour that is not converted into dough for making bread is used as animal feed in livestock and poultry farms. is used

He stated that making bread smart reduces the wastage of flour in the country. Last year, an average of 740,000 tons of flour was consumed in the country, which has now reached 620,000 tons, which means that some amounts of flour are leaving the network.

A member of the Agriculture Commission said that the intelligentization can be implemented by freeing the price of bread. Smartening in the discussion of flour should be done due to continuous monitoring, and at the same time, price liberalization and direct subsidy payment to households can be done, and these 2 have no contradictions with each other.

Full implementation of intelligentization prevents possible flour spills in the units

Mr. Jalal Mahmoodzadeh, the first vice-chairman of the Parliament’s Agriculture Committee, said: Considering the current inflation and the high cost of basic goods, the consumption of bread is high in small and deprived cities and also by the poor and middle class of the society, therefore, with price liberalization and distribution of flour at full price, people cannot afford to buy it.

According to him, due to the lack of supervision, a number of bakery units sell their quota flour in the open market, which partially prevents the full implementation of intelligentization.

Mahmoudzadeh says: With the implementation of smart bread, due to the payment of bread through a card reader, it prevents the loss to some extent.

The first vice-chairman of the commission emphasized the payment of bread subsidy and said: Considering the economic conditions of the people and the increase in bread consumption, it is not possible to perform economic surgery in the flour and bread product group of the country.

In recent months, many bakery units have been working fewer hours due to the end of the flour quota, while the authorities have repeatedly announced that there has been no change in the flour quota of the bakery units, and possible abuses can be prevented only with the implementation of intelligence. It is expected that the second phase of this project will be implemented as soon as possible so that we don’t see the waste of significant amounts of flour in the country.