Alrai ـــــ The committee tasked with studying the cost of dairy prices postponed the announcement of its results, which was scheduled to be held yesterday to next week, due to lack of consensus among its members, according to an informed source. 

The source, who preferred not to be named, said that the committee met for 3 hours yesterday, without reaching a consensus on the real costs of dairy prices and the final decision to settle the file. 

The source, who attended the meeting of the Committee, said that the reason for not reaching a final decision is the adherence of each of the parties to the Commission with the figures in his possession, pointing out at the same time that the most controversial item is the large difference between the operational costs (industrial and administrative costs) and sales expenses, Between the figures between several plants. 

He added that the committee was not satisfied with the results of the study, at a time when one of the parties to the Committee that the milk box bear 30 piasters of the cost of operating expenses, but another party felt that the number is large, indicating that milk can not afford it, and asked to visit dairy factories to know Real costs on the ground so as not to damage the national industry and does not bear the burden of the consumer more. 

According to the source, it was agreed that the resolution of the file and the consensus among the parties to the Committee is to give them more time to determine the real costs of the factories during the visit programmed by representatives of the Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Committee formed, and obtain convincing answers to the figures, That the Commission was entitled to access any paper, the calculation of costs and losses, and that it would not be accommodated by the decision. 

The meeting was attended by the head of the committee, Industrial Development Officer in the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Supply Yasmine Khreisat, the head of the food merchants Khalil Al-Haj Tawfiq, Mohammad Al-Jaitan representing the Jordan Chamber of Industry, Fawaz Shakaa, the Ministry of Agriculture, He is the director of a dairy company. 

The Ministry of Industry and Trade issued a statement yesterday that the postponement of the announcement of the results of the study carried out with the Committee formed to calculate the cost of milk production, came after the Committee agreed yesterday to visit a number of factories next week to confirm the cost of production and see the data of some companies, To reach the real costs of dairy production, and that this is an update of the effort made by the Committee over the past days to calculate the costs. 

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