Wheat Farmers' Dues to Be Settled by Week's End; Payment Details

Although a promise has been made to settle wheat farmers' dues by the end of the week, disputes over the guaranteed purchase price and delays in announcing the final price continue.

While the promise of settling the demands of wheat farmers by the end of the week has been made, the dispute over the guaranteed purchase rate and the delay in announcing the final price continues.

Ambassador of Arjan-Economic Group: Aliqli Imani, CEO of the National Wheat Farmers Foundation, criticized the delay in determining the guaranteed purchase rate of wheat and said: According to the Guaranteed Purchase Law of Agricultural Products, pricing should be done by considering components such as the cost of production, inflation rate, exchange rate and world prices; Based on this, the proposed price for the guaranteed purchase of wheat was 85 thousand tomans, but the program and budget organization, without scientific support, proposes another figure.

Emphasizing the necessity of economical production for farmers, he added: Effective support for farmers is possible through fair and reasonable price determination, but despite the holding of expert meetings, the review of production costs and the holding of a council meeting, the final price of the guaranteed purchase of wheat has not yet been approved, and another expert meeting has been scheduled to be held.

Referring to the opinion of the Ministry of Agricultural Jihad about the reasonable rate of guaranteed purchase of wheat, the CEO of the National Wheat Farmers Foundation stated: As the guardian of production, the Ministry of Agricultural Jihad considers the reasonable price of each kilogram of wheat to be 92 thousand tomans. At the time when the proposed rate of 85 thousand Tomans was proposed, the exchange rate was 170 thousand Tomans, but the increase in the exchange rate has severely affected the production costs and livelihood of farmers.

Imani continued criticizing the delay in announcing the guaranteed purchase rate of wheat: farmers are complaining about this situation and have expressed their dissatisfaction in numerous calls. Some of them raise the concern that the government intends to announce the guaranteed purchase rate after the end of the cultivation season; While the timely announcement of the price helps the farmers to decide to grow their crop.

He also said about the latest payment status of wheat farmers' claims: the amount of unpaid claims is between 5 and 7% in warm areas and 50% in cold areas. According to the promise of the head of the program and budget organization, the demands of the wheat farmers are supposed to be settled by the end of the week.

Emphasizing the importance of timely payment of farmers' demands, the CEO of the National Wheat Farmers Foundation stated: farmers need liquidity to provide the required inputs and start operations in the new crop year; Therefore, accelerating the payment of claims plays an important role in providing cultivation costs.

In the end, Imani emphasized: delay in paying the demands of wheat farmers reduces their motivation and discouragement; Therefore, it is necessary to accelerate the settlement of claims and timely announcement of the guaranteed purchase rate of wheat to support the production and planning of farmers.

According to Seyed Saeed Rad, another 100 thousand billion Tomans will be paid from wheat farmers' demands next week, and the total payment can exceed 370 thousand billion Tomans.

The CEO of Subsidies Targeting Organization announced the beginning of payment of another 55 hemats of the demands of wheat farmers in the country and announced: With the completion of this stage, the total amount paid to wheat farmers will reach 275 hemats.

The head of the Subsidy Targeting Organization announced the provision of the necessary resources to pay the cash subsidy by the end of the year and emphasized that the payments will be made without delay. At the same time, the responsibility for determining the income groups and removing subsidy recipients was determined, and the latest payment status of wheat farmers' claims was also announced.