How does the relationship between farmers and millers can help improve the quality of flour?
The removal of the executive role of
the state in the wheat industry, flour and bread and the assignment of this
duty to the private sector has long been raised by the government’s opposition
to the government. Of course, it should be said, naturally, given the
multiplicity of wheat and the high subsidies that flow in these industries.
And, in other cases, the privatization infrastructure has not yet been provided,
and it is better to provide the necessary infrastructure and facilities in
advance of this assignment.
But what we are going to make in this
article is the discussion of the transfer of wheat to the private sector, in
other words, the direct link between the buyer and the seller (the farmer) and,
in fact, the removal of the relationship (or the government).
Many experts in the wheat industry,
flour and bread, mention presence of brokers as one of the reasons for the lack
of quality of the wheat received by the government and believe that wheat grain
that a farmer reaps is clean and free of impurities, but the reason these wheat
with impurities is handed over to the government is that the brokers who buy
wheat from the farmer, and then mix the good wheat and the poor, and sell it to
the government. In the meantime, the purchased wheat money is pledged to the intermediary
agents rather than to the actual producer (farmer). In the end, millers will
not be able to have good quality wheat.
But why does not the state provide
land to provide a link between the farmer and the factory owner and buy wheat
mills directly from the farmer?!
Of course, due to lack of liquidity,
many factories do not agree on this issue, but the government can fix the
problem buying the wheat from the farmer and simply paying farmers’ claims, or
in other cases, to provide loans to support the purchase of wheat from flour
mills.
Establishing a relationship between
the factory owner and the farmer is good, which will be referred to below;
First, the mill can directly require
its needs from the producer (the farmer) and receive the desired wheat;
secondly, by asking for good quality wheat, a competitive atmosphere is created
and the farmer will naturally try to increase the quality of wheat production.
In sum, this issue can be considered
as one of the ways to improve the quality of wheat and consequently to improve
the quality of flour, and it is hoped the government will reflect on this
strategy.