Ali Al-Qali Imani, vice president of the National Wheat Farmers Foundation, said a few days ago: Although this year’s crop has been enough, it is expected that if the price of two thousand and two hundred tomans is guaranteed to buy a kilogram of wheat, this year’s problems in the field of guaranteed wheat purchases will continue. The government has no choice but to supply the country with the bread it needs. Imani said: With farmers refusing to deliver produced wheat to government centers and government concerns about supplying people with bread and challenges in the future, authorities have begun importing and reports indicate that nearly three million tonnes of wheat have been purchased. And part of it has arrived and ships are flocking to ports.

According to a member of parliament’s agricultural commission, the import price per kilogram of imported wheat for the government is about 3,500. “The government has planned to import at least four million tonnes of wheat, which it must supply at a price of three and a half thousand dollars per kilogram,” said Abbas Papizadeh. However, the proposal of the representatives of the Agricultural Commission for each kilogram of three thousand tomans, which has not yet been accepted.  

Ali Waqfchi, a member of parliament’s agricultural commission, said the commission’s bid to buy a guaranteed wheat per kilogram was three thousand tomans, but the parliament was closed for the time being.

He said that while pricing is not a joke, he said: “While in many cases we are wasting money, there is not much attention paid to wheat that is economically, securely and employmentally valuable and needs support.” We expect the government to do this to minimize both the concerns of the people in the field of bread and the prosperity of the agricultural sector.

The allocation of four thousand and two hundred dollars in imports, that is to say rent

The MP added: “When we give the importer about four thousand two hundred tomans of government currency , it creates a rent and threatens domestic production.” In other words, the state currency has caused the producer to produce twelve thousand tomans, but the merchant has imported four thousand and two hundred tomans . As long as this rent continues, we should not wait for an internal boom. If we are to give government currency, we must give it to the producer, not the importer.