Between the high costs of production, triggered by high oil prices, and reduce the purchase price by the Government through the General Organization for Grain Silos and Flour Mills, appear to grow wheat in Saudi Arabia is about to stop. Hundreds or even thousands of irrigation systems and the central millions of families could lose a bit of living in the moments due to these circumstances. Agriculture is no longer as it was, the higher prices of inputs (seeds, fertilizers, pesticides, plastics, transportation, harvesters, and many others) at various rates varied between 60 and 400 per cent, at the time of reduction of the purchase price of wheat from 1.5 Real to Real, and one kilo, which make it comparable, if not lower than world prices.
Experts in the field of agriculture in Saudi Arabia that the next two years will be crucial for this activity, since the status quo would be a real disaster. According to farmers, is witnessed by the high altitude, fertilizers and pesticides as well as the high cost of transport, where prices rose at rates sometimes exceed 300 per cent a big problem and an obstacle can not be ignored.