Turkmenistan is still experiencing a shortage of bread.
The majority of residents in Skarchagin etrap, Mary velayat make bread from Guinea corn (sorghum, a cereal used as fodder) and corn, according to correspondents of “Chronicles of Turkmenistan”.
A sack of local flour of grade 1 costs 750 manats, which is not affordable for locals.Because of coronavirus restrictions the problem of unemployment, which has not been addressed in Turkmenistan for years, has deteriorated.
Thousands of people engaged in small business have been deprived of the opportunity to make a living.No financial aid is provided by the government for those who have lost a source of income.
The unemployed in the province had previously had an opportunity to be hired by land tenants for cotton harvesting campaigns, which gave them a small income.The state-run media outlets previously reported on the successful execution of cotton harvest targeta but this year, according to residents of the province, there has been almost no cotton on the fields and their services are not in demand.
Residents of the etrap hold the local authorities accountable for all problems. According to them, reports of khyakims on the successful execution of wheat and cotton yield targets are misleading for the government, who is not aware of resident’s real problems.
If the police do not dispel beggars, half of Sakarchag residents (Sakarchag the central city of etrap comment by the editorial board), including children will be asking for alms on the streets.
The shortage of groceries, in particular flour and bread, is noticeable throughout the entire country.
As was previously reported, in an attempt to combat illegal trade in the city of Garabekewül, Lebap velayat the police were trying to identify residents who sell home-made bread.
Bread supplies delivered to state-run stores in Ashgabat have been reduced. The weight of bread loaves and flat bread is being decreased.
Residents of Ashgabat suburban districts of Bagyr, Yanbash, Buzmein come to the capital and go store to store hoping to purchase bread at state prices 1 manat per loaf.
Bread is now delivered to the stores after their closing, at 11 p.m.Bread is sold from 6 to 7 a.m.and shops run out of it in the morning.
By this time not only rural inhabitants but few Ashgabat residents make it on time to buy bread.Many ask relatives and friends who live nearby to buy them a loaf of bread.
In privately owned stores bread costs 3 to 5 manats.The post Cash-strapped residents of Mary velayat make bread from sorghum first appeared on Chronicles of Turkmenistan.