Syria’s Autonomous Administration to support bakeries amid bread crisis
QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – An official of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria said that they would support bakeries to avoid a bread crisis in Qamishli.
Since January 14, the city of Qamishli has been witnessing a bread crisis amid large gatherings of people in front of bakeries to get their bread.
Salman Barudo, the co-chair of the Economic and Agricultural Board of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), said “The administration is currently supporting the catering bakeries, and will focus its support mainly on those bakeries during the coming period.”
Officials of AANES met with the owners of the subsidized bakeries on Saturday in the city of Qamishli to resume their work after several days of a cutoff.
“We suggested that we would provide wheat to the mills to secure flour for these bakeries at an appropriate price so that the price of bread does not rise again, because it is a basic material and we consider it a red line,” Barudo added.
A significant percentage of families buy bread from subsidized bakeries because of the low quality and quantity of bread produced by public bakeries. The shutdown of private bakeries for subsidized bread affects not only Qamishli, but also Hasakah, Derik, and other regions of northeast Syria.
It is expected that the Economic and Agriculture Authority will meet next Thursday with the owners of the bakeries after conducting a study on the cost of one ton by the bakery owners and submitting them to the authority.
The price of a bag of flour recently reached 40,000 SYP after an increase in wheat prices, according to bakery owners, who add that continuing to sell their bread at old prices will lead to economic loss.