“Wasted fatigue,” says one of the participants in the thirteenth conference of the General Union of Peasants, which lasted for two days and concluded the day before yesterday in the Sahara resort.
He added, “We were expecting to meet with officials to show them the suffering of farmers and the grievances of livestock breeders or even to provide interventions at the conference, and the matter was limited to elections, and they delegated the General Union Council and we returned to our homes with no longing.”
When we were asked about the costs of this conference, the participant, who reserved his name, explained in detail the estimates of what was spent, including:
There were 500 participants, including 307 people entitled to vote, observer members, union presidents’ assistants, drivers and others.
All booked for 3 nights at the resort.
We took ten drink coupons worth 2500 lira for each coupon “and there are people who got more than 10” in addition to three meals a day.
Breakfast consisted of labneh, boiled eggs, cheese, jam, mortadella and hummus, while lunch consisted of rice, meat balls, hummus, yoghurt cup, pickles and “kibbeh”, and dinner consisted of chickpeas, eggplant, mutabal, pickles, chicken cutlets, mushrooms and onions.
He estimated the cost of food per person at about 35,000 pounds per day, excluding drinks.
As for the cost of accommodation in the resort, we contacted the resort, who explained that:
The cost of booking a room ranges between 140 and 160 thousand pounds, while in the “suite” it is 390 thousand and can accommodate six people, and we inquired from the resort’s inquiries that if we book for a group, is there any discount offered? They answered no.
Thus, if we assume that each room was booked for two people and that the resort offered a discount to the Farmers Union, we estimate that the cost of accommodation alone for the Union amounted to an average of 50,000 SYP per day, in addition to the cost of booking the conference hall for two days, and the travel costs of participants who came from all governorates. The cost of one participant becomes an average and a minimum of 130 thousand SYP per day, so the cost of the conference is estimated at 200 million SYP.
Regardless of who has incurred these costs and the importance of holding conferences for the most important productive segment in our country to listen to their demands and know their concerns, but this large cost can operate a feed factory that contributes to affecting its prices, which jump daily by hundreds of thousands per ton, or many agricultural facilities Which demands large sums of money to continue.
Basem Al- Mohaamad
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