The pasta industry pours government subsidies into the pockets of foreigners

Seyed Mohammad Reza Mortazavi, in an interview with Fars News Agency’s economic correspondent, said: “Wheat has caused three economic losses to the government and subsidized wheat should be removed as soon as possible for bakers or industries because only certain people benefit and Its smoke goes to the eyes of the nation.

Referring to some of these problems with subsidized wheat, the head of the Iranian Food Industry Associations added: “The government buys $ 550 per ton of wheat, provides $ 100 for flour to industry and industry, and factories export $ 400 per ton of pasta, which means our country.” It costs $ 300 per tonne of pasta to export, but pasta makers make a profit.

He said that more than 300,000 tons of pasta is exported annually to almost all countries, adding: “Iranian pasta is exported to Iraq, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan and European countries, including the United States and Canada.”

Mortazavi added: “It is clear that when factory owners take $ 100 of wheat and sell pasta for $ 400, it is very economical for them and they make a profit, and the price of pasta is economical and economical for other countries, but let us remember that this pasta It is made from subsidized wheat and we have no right to export them.

According to this official, other industries, such as starch and glucose factories, also receive subsidized wheat. They receive 2,500 tomans per kilogram of wheat from the government, but sweets are not less than 70,000 tomans per kilogram or 40,000 tomans per kilogram of biscuits. Is.

He added that the government subsidizes 2.5 million tons of wheat annually to the industrial sector, which is about one tenth of the price it buys from global markets, but the industrial sector exports its products, ie the subsidy is paid into the pockets of people in other countries.

Mortazavi, pointing out that wheat in our country has three prices, said: wheat costs 650 Tomans for so-called government bakers, 900 Tomans for free cookers and 2500 Tomans per kilogram for the industrial sector, while each kilogram of imported wheat costs 14570 Tomans. Becomes.

He added: the government buys domestic wheat from farmers for 11,500 tomans per kilogram, and it is not right at all to subsidize the industrial sector, whose product is exported to other countries.

The food industry activist believes that there are many problems in the field of bread, it is not clear at all which baker is open-baked or government-baked, but the government provides them with a subsidy of flour at one tenth of the price.

In the end, he stressed that the government has been subsidizing some goods for decades, and they themselves have come to the conclusion that this subsidy does not come to the table of the people, so it is time to cut these subsidies.

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