Eastern farmers demand to facilitate the receipt of wheat in Shun and silos

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The farmers are suffering a real supply of wheat this year because of the overcrowding in the crop.

The farmers, who are responsible for receiving the crop whether in finance or agriculture or the Development and Agricultural Credit Bank, demanded that the receipt and payment of their dues should be made so that they would not have to sell the crop to the monopolistic traders at prices lower than the price approved by the government for more than 30 pounds per square meter.

Baha Mohammed Suleiman from the village of the island of text center of Faqus that traders buy wheat for 650 pounds and supply the money for the farms after a week and we separate it, even though the government's pricing for one Ardab 680 pounds, and thus lost in the single buttock amount of 30 pounds because of the abuse faced by farmers when entering Shoun and silos designated for the receipt of wheat waiting for cars in the queue outside the sauna costs the simple farmer money can not afford.

Not to mention the payment of gratuities to the workers of the barn and the like, which costs the farmer money that reduces the income that awaits him throughout the year.

"I prefer to sell the wheat crop to the trader because he is beautifying the crop and weighing it in the field and giving me the date of receipt of its price after a week or 10 days, from loading the crop and going to the barn and waiting," said Suleiman Abdul Majid.

Abdo al-Malki, a farmer at the Abu Kabir Center, said that I loaded the wheat with my own crop and went to the barn. I found a queue of cars and I was forced to spend a night in front of the barge. I spent a whole night with the driver and incurred huge sums waiting for the car with me for a long time. Calculation of wheat at the price of 650 pounds for the Ardab and this suffered significant losses, unlike most of my neighbors sold the crop to traders at the price of 650 pounds for the Ardab and seized their money after a week.

Ibrahim Al-Sayed Abdul Halim of the Kafr Saqr farmers pointed out that those responsible for receiving the wheat crop are the ones who make the farmers surrender to the monopoly of traders and agree to sell the crop to them at low prices in order to avoid what they face when going to supply the crop in Shun.

Mahmoud Ahmed Awad, a senior farmer at the Abu Kabir Center, said that the owners of the private shoun receive 400 pounds for each car weighing more than 10 tons, not to mention the deduction of more than 50 kg of each tonnage for the employees who receive the sheep's allowance. Of their own without being committed to the lines outside the barn and are in agreement with the counting committees inside the camp and to calculate their admission within the highest grade.

This affects the simple farmers and forced them to sell to the big traders monopolizing the amounts of less than the government's price of more than 30 pounds in the buttocks.

He called on all parties to set up a special commission for all sides from neutral parties such as the armed forces to control the work and to bind everyone with one system without accounting

For his part, Eng. Alaa Afifi, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Agriculture in Sharqia, said that the harvesting and supply operations of the pits are proceeding normally

And that the province has so far recorded the first place in the supply of the concession and is continuing to follow the receipt of Shun and silos of 51 Shouna and Suma through committees to pass the continuous.

Wheat before harvest

Silos receiving wheat

Harvest operations

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Sorting Committees

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