According to Khabaronline news agency, Haj Kadam Burbor, head of the National Wheat Foundation of Tehran Province and vice-chairman of the National Wheat Foundation of the country, referring to the beginning of the new crop year and the lack of guaranteed wheat purchase rates, said: Although a month has passed since the celebration of the start of the new crop year with the presence of the President and the Minister of Agricultural Jihad in Karaj, and problems and issues such as the non-payment of wheat money were raised, the payment of wheat farmers’ money has taken so far and still 40% of the farmers’ wheat money is still pending. Under the pretext that this money is for the insurance of the agricultural sector or that the wheat is not of the required quality, it has not been paid and has caused problems.
Criticism of the increase in the price of urea fertilizer
Ilna wrote: The head of the National Wheat Foundation of Tehran Province and the vice-chairman of the National Wheat Foundation of the country, referring to the increase in the price of urea fertilizer and its pressure on farmers and wheat farmers, said: in the midst of non-payment of wheat farmers, the Ministry of Agricultural Jihad and the Pricing Council increased the price of urea fertilizer more than twice, so that the price of each bag of fertilizer has increased from 1.5 to 1.6 million tomans to 3.5 million tomans.
Criticizing the increase in the price of urea fertilizer, Bourbor continued: Some say that we give subsidies to farmers to facilitate the purchase of fertilizer, which is all a lie.
Continuity of power failure of agricultural wells
The head of the National Wheat Foundation of Tehran province, referring to the reluctance of farmers to cultivate due to the increase in the price of production inputs, said: In addition to the increase in the price of fertilizer, farmers are also facing the increase in the price of energy and the power outage of agricultural wells.
Borbur continued: The electricity of the agricultural wells is cut off for 5 hours every day, and the farmers are also facing the problem of power cuts.
Referring to the delay in determining the guaranteed purchase price of wheat, he said: last week, a wheat pricing meeting was held, but unfortunately, the head of the Planning and Budget Organization did not attend and the meeting was canceled, and we still could not find out what the purchase price of wheat is for the crop year 1406-1405.
The discouragement of farmers to grow wheat
Referring to the proposed price of the National Wheat Foundation, the head of the National Wheat Foundation of Tehran Province said: The proposed price of the National Wheat Foundation was 85 thousand Tomans, considering the inflation and technical issues, which was also approved by the Ministry of Agricultural Jihad, but the price of the Rate Council, which includes the Program and Budget Organization and the Ministry of Economy, has not been announced yet.
Bourbour pointed out: The failure to determine the guaranteed purchase price of wheat has caused confusion among farmers who do not know what to plant and what not to plant, and for this reason, farmers do it with discouragement.
He demanded that the President and the Parliament enter into the matter of determining the purchase of the guaranteed purchase of wheat and said: We expect the President and the representatives of the Islamic Council to enter into this matter and remove the situation from the chaos and irresponsibility of the guaranteed purchase of wheat.
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