KUWAIT CITY, April 30: The Iranian bread, loved and preferred by many families, has become a scarce commodity and may become a “food of the past” in the near future, reports Al-Qabas daily. A large number of tannour bakeries have shut down business in investment areas for several reasons, most notably the high rents which have become unaffordable, in addition to the departure of many bakers and workers who were experts in tannour baking either due to Covid-19 pandemic or other reasons such the fees set by the Public Authority for Manpower for non-graduate expatriates 60 years and above to renew their work permits and a majority of tannour workers fall in this category of workers.

While some of the Iranians working in bakeries shut their businesses and went to work in cooperative societies, others worked at the fish and vegetable markets, restaurants and others. With the monthly rents of shops in the investment areas reached 750 to a thousand dinars, many owners of bakeries making the Iranian bread preferred to abandon the business and some lucky ones found an opening in branches of cooperative societies and the shops designated for bakeries in the central markets. The advantages granted by cooperative societies, with the approval of the Ministry of Social Affairs, to tannour bakeries, have contributed to keeping this activity next to some coops, despite the closure of about 40 percent of Iranian bread bakeries all over the country.