Bakers lament high cost of bread production, appeal to FG

Bakers in Nigeria have spoke to the Federal Government to desperately mediate in the increasing expense of bread production generally as they precluded going on strike. 

Addressing newsmen in Ibadan on Sunday, Chief Bayo Folarin, the National President of the Association of Master Bakers of

Nigeria (AMBCN) said that the circumstance may soon send the item into annihilation.

"May be in the closest future, loaves of bread may go off the roads of Nigeria if the expense of its production keeps on rising unabated," he said. 

Folarin, who serves as the Chairman, Board of Trustees (BOT) of the affiliation, said that administration expected to intercede quick in stemming the present slide in the swapping scale of the naira. 

He said that move was essential since all the crude materials for heating, with the exception of kindling were foreign. 

"The Baking Industry in Nigeria is unfavorably influenced by the present accident of the naira in connection with the U.S. dollar and this has made the endeavor unrewarding to individuals from the affiliation. 

"We are, in this manner, appealing to the Federal Government to intercede in the fortunes of the naira against the dollars so that the conversion scale can be great to bread cooks," he said. 

As indicated by him, the cost of these crude materials, which incorporate wheat flour, sugar, salt, margarine, eatable oil and yeast, are taking off at a cosmic rate. 

"Case in point, as at December 2015, a sack of flour which was N6,500 now goes for N10, 500. "Likewise, a sack of sugar, which sold for N10, 500 in January is currently N15, 000 in the South West, while it is being sold for N17, 000 in the East and the North. " 

Likewise, a container of yeast once in the past sold for N11, 000 now goes for N16, 000," he said. The ABMCN supervisor communicated stresses over the advancement, adding that the affiliation's speak to mill operators and those included in the exchange had yielded no outcome. 

He said that they had pivoted their being inflexible on the expanded costs of production materials. 

The main bakery in Nigeria, who precluded the likelihood of his individuals going on strike, said that "they will go on strike as bosses'', focusing on that a stop underway would render laborers jobless. He, be that as it may, spoke to the business head honcho, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, to permit dough punchers get to direct purchasing of salt and sugar by slamming the costs. 

"He has done it before and he can in any case do it," he said. 

Folarin, who deplored the improvement, said, "We would prefer not to set out on a strike since we are managers, yet we can pull back our administrations if things don't improve."