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He noted that “this is the result of the global rise in wheat prices, in addition to importing the various components involved in the production of the package from abroad, that is, buying it at the dollar exchange rate on the black.” market, in addition to ensuring 15% of imported wheat subsidized at this price “.
He continued: “In the morning, the news of the announcement of a further increase in the price of the package of bread to 3000 pounds next week seemed to cause confusion among the citizens. How healthy is it?”
The head of the bakery owners union, Ali Ibrahim, through Al-Markaziyah, categorically denied all the news circulating on the subject, stating that it was “unfounded” and added: “I don’t know where this fabricated data comes from, and the citizens do not lack news and similar meals “.
He explained: “We cannot deny that the increase is possible as long as world wheat prices continue to rise in parallel with a further deterioration in the value of the national currency against the dollar. We have repeatedly spoken about the price structure program resulting from a study scientist who determines the fair price based on it. Therefore, the price of bread changes. “With the change in the prices of the materials mentioned in the schedule and according to the percentage of costs that result from the use of these materials for produce the package, noting that “it is not so easy to raise the price of the package by 500 pounds, unless the Lebanese currency has deteriorated significantly and the dollar reaches 20 thousand pounds.”
Ibrahim said: “The bakery sector is the only one that feels with the people, and when the exchange rate was 1,500, the price of the package was one dollar.”
And about rating the cartilage ovens and accusing them of making big profits because they use subsidized flour over 1500 pounds to make products whose prices are not officially determined, commented Ibrahim, saying: “We have already said repeatedly that the price of ‘extra’ flour is difference in price of standardized “zero” flour used in bread making Sorry for posting similar news.
In turn, the general director of Grains of the Ministry of Economy, Gerges Barbari, denied “flatly denying what circulates on social networks that the Minister of Economy and Trade of the interim government, Raoul Nehme, will announce next week that the price of a package of bread will increase to 3000 pounds. “
He stressed that “this news has no basis in terms of logic or calculations and falls within malicious rumors.”
