Zitounija: State does not pay debt for flour, millers get no money for wheat purchase
BizLife 10.06.2022
The state has not yet paid the mills a debt of 240 million dinars for the delivery of flour at frozen prices, and limited export prevented them from selling surpluses, so many will not have the money to buy wheat from the new yield, said director of the Association of Millers “Zitounija”, Zdravko Sajatovic.
He told the Beta agency that millers were claiming debt from the state for four months, from February to June, because the state did not deliver wheat from commodity reserves at favourable prices, but they had to buy it on the free market. “Millers bought wheat on the free market because the state did not deliver it from commodity reserves, except for two months, and they paid for it at significantly higher prices, while they sold flour at limited prices, which
