Over 1m flour bags planned to meet bread demand

JEDDAH: The Saudi Grains Organization (SAGO) announced that they make available in the market more than 1 million bags of flour during Haj season 2016 to ensure an adequate supply of bread.
Musa Al-Zahrani, SAGO Jeddah branch director, made the announcement at a workshop, organized by the Jeddah Chamber of Commerce and Industry along with bakery sector’s investors. The workshop encouraged team work among the bakery investors for production and distribution of bread during Haj season.
It further took into account obstacles the bakeries faces during Haj, their solutions; permits for delivering kerosene and diesel for bakeries in Makkah during Haj; the bakeries in Makkah that work only during Haj and don’t have enough flour; trucks that will transfer bags of flour from Jeddah to Makkah during Haj; and all types of support and measures taken by the JCCI and SAGO to provide flour on time to bakeries during the Haj season. It considered a fixed price to check bread’s price hike or its black marketing in Makkah and other holy places.
The workshop was also attended by Bakeries Committee Chairman Fayez Hamadeh; Exact Operators Committee Chairman Saheem Al-Ghamdi; Follow-up management branch Director at the Ministry of Commerce and Trade in Makkah Yusuf Al-Ghamdi; and Aljmom branch Director Saleh Hadidha.
SAGO was lauded for its role as an institution and a national leader, which is seeking to form an integrated industry for the storage of grain and the production of flour.
The organization wants to upgrade the grain sector and assume a greater role in the food security system, and aims to maintain its status as one of the most important sectors in the field of food security.