Sindh Food Department procures 300,000 tonnes less wheat

Sindh Food Department procures 300,000 tonnes less wheat

By Tanveer Sher KARACHI: Sindh Food Department after hectic efforts managed to procure around a million tonne wheat out of a total target of 1.3 million tonne set for the current year. Previous year the target of 1.3 million tonne was achieved with relative ease but this year the goal appeared to be a Herculean

Beneficiaries of wheat subsidy

THE commencement of the official wheat procurement season in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa a few weeks ago has put the provincial government under pressure. While the government has a wheat storage capacity of 354,000 tonnes, the provincial directorate of food will procure 400,000 tonnes this year — about 100,000 tonnes more than last year

Sindh wheat procurement target of 1.3m tonnes

Flour rates re-surge after imposition of Section 144 By Tanveer Sher KARACHI: Flour rates have re-surged by Rs 4 to Rs 5 per kilogramme (kg) in the wholesale and retail markets of Karachi during the last 10 days in the wake of imposition of Section 144 by the Sindh Food Department for realisation of 1.3