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NCRI – With the closure of the Asal (honey) ice cream factory in the city of Sanandaj, in Kurdistan province, 120 workers of this old factory were unemployed. The employer says: \u201cThe facilities that were promised to us were not paid.\u201d<\/p>\n
The state-run ILNA news agency reports that the ice cream factory \u201cHoney of Kurdistan\u201d has been closed for months, and workers are unemployed for nearly five months.<\/p>\n
One of these workers says: \u201cHow many factories do you think there are in Kurdistan that if one is closed, we go to another one and get hired? Honey ice cream was closed, we are now stay-at-home.\u201d<\/p>\n
Seyyed Jamal Saedi, CEO and shareholder of the company, says about the reasons for closing down the factory: \u201cIt is not possible without a support to start-up again.\u201d<\/p>\n
“The Honey ice cream is the first ice cream factory in Kurdistan that has been active in the economy over the past ten years and even exported products to the neighbouring countries,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had 120 personnel. We launched the development plan of the complex and brought it into operation in 2015, along with the dairy and 500 cattle and livestock. We also invested 70 billion Toman for the development plan, and the working group on supporting the industry from the National Development Fund was supposed to pay 40 billion Toman to us, which has not paid yet,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Saedi, referring to the lack of support from government officials, said: “Until the eve of the New Year, we run the factory\u2019s wheels without any support and on personal expenses until we ended up losing money and bankrupt and forced to shut down.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMost of our staff are ladies, and this unemployment puts a lot of pressure on them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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