Mills say bread size not their concern

Monitoring the size of a loaf of bread is the responsibility of the Ministries of Commerce and Municipality, said the Grain Silos and Flour Mills Organization.
The organization denied responsibility for any decision on the size of a loaf, contrary to what bakers had claimed earlier.
Flour is a commodity that has been subsidized for more than 30 years with the state bearing 70 percent of its cost.
Ahmad Al-Faris, spokesman for the organization, explained to a local newspaper that the role of his organization is to provide flour. He denied accusations that farmers had been selling their crops to mills, leading to an increase in the price of flour. Al-Faris said the state would continue subsidizing this basic commodity.
The Eastern Province alone consumes 12 percent of the organization’s total production capacity of 130 ton, through three mills at King Abdulaziz Port in Dammam.
The organization recently signed a contract to set up a mill near Al-Ahsa with a storage capacity of 60,000 tons.