Cuban Bread Company in Cienfuegos has not received flour from the State for a year

The Cuban Bread Company in Hundred fires He stated this Wednesday that for a year he has not received flour from the state for the production of released bread.

Raúl Valdés Mantecón, director of the Cuban Bread Company in the province, explained the reasons why the price of this food has increased in the territory and that one of them is that they must buy flour from individuals, the channel quoted Perlavision.

"For approximately a year the company has not received flour from the national balance because it is an imported product and there is difficulty in its distribution, and the strategy we have found is to go to other economic resources (Mypimes, for example)," he explained.

He said that the composition of the bread is 70 percent flour, which is why the product becomes more expensive.

He defended, however, the sale of bread released to the population despite the high prices. "If we stop producing this bread, it will result in workers sent home, technology that we are not exploiting and an increase in the price of bread in other establishments," he said.

He explained that the cost sheet was carefully evaluated and "the prices are not speculative, the profit margins are minimal"; but the company thus manages to regulate the price of a product that 100 percent of the population consumes.

"If all the bread produced in this province remains in the hands of private producers without the presence of the state, prices would be much higher," he stressed.

The Cuban authorities have faced problems in guaranteeing standardized bread for the population, due to the shortage of flour.

A few days ago it emerged that the Cuban Bread Chain in Pinar del Río also initiated agreements with MSMEs of the province that will allow the production of some foods.

The head of the entity's Technical Productive Group, Roberto Pérez del Llano, explained that the MSMEs will be responsible for the supply of raw materials, while the workers of the Cuban Bread Chain units will produce the products.

This Wednesday it emerged that in that territory they decided bump the price of bread starting today, a measure that will affect all those dedicated to the retail sale of that basic food.

Faced with the shortage of bread on the Island, aggravated by the economic crisis and the inability of the Cuban government to supply itself with flour on the international market, the communist regime has once again opted for its policy of capping prices as a way to control inflation.