Rabat – The National Federation of owners of bakeries will increase the cost of a loaf of bread throughout Morocco without the approval of the government, according to Tuesday’s issue of the Moroccan daily Almassae.
The federation has not yet set up the amount of the increase; however, the increase is likely to vary from MAD 0.10 to MAD 0.30 depending on regions.
Lahoucine Azaz, President of the federation of bakeries, said that the current critical situation of bakeries made it obligatory to make this decision “in order to safeguard the dignity of the professionals at risk of going bankrupt.”
Azaz added that after years of fruitless negotiations with the government, the latter failed to honor its commitments to implement the contents of the contractual program.
Following the recent remarkable increase in fuel prices, basic goods and services since the first governmental coalition led by the Islamist party of Justice and Development (PJD) took office in 2011, Moroccans will have to cope with the new increase of bread prices.
For Moroccans, bread is the staple food that any Moroccan family cannot do without since it is widely served with nearly all meals.
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