The absence of regulated wheat flour and the high prices of imported flour again affect bakeries in the country.
The manager of a bakery in Chacaíto said that on December 27 he got 35 bags of regulated wheat flour, but only reached for 10 days. After 2 months without taking out bread, they were able to bake the French type until January 6, and sold it at 4,800 bolivars.
This week he has maintained his business selling cachitos, Andean bread and cheese. Last Tuesday they managed to bake 100 small pieces of peasant -which sold it in 10,000 bolivars- with a sack of national flour that cost them 1,400,000 bolivars.
In another bakery in Chacaíto they received the regulated input on December 28, but it took them 3 days to make French bread. The person in charge assured that they did not send them yeast, so they had to buy it imported in 500,000 bolivars for half a kilo. "Even so, we had to sell the bread at a regulated price," he said.
"This week I rejected a sack of flour of 2 million bolivars because each bread would cost 30,000 bolivars," said the owner of an establishment in La Carlota.