Pakistan Flour Mills Association (PFMA) and the Punjab Food Department (PFD) high officials held negotiations on Saturday to bring stability to flour prices in the market especially in the province.
Senior & Food Minister Punjab Abdul Aleem Khan has directed the Punjab food department to immediately stop wheat procurement after total stocks of wheat reached 4.3 million metric tons.
The Pakistan Kissan Ittehad (PKI) and the All Pakistan Kissan Foundation welcomed the commission's report on sugar industry and urged the government to take stern action against the culprits who were taking benefit from both sides in the name of farmers.
Urgent action is needed to safeguard the biodiversity of the world's forests amid alarming rates of deforestation and degradation, according to the latest edition of The State of the World's Forests released on Friday.
On the assurance of addressing their concerns by Punjab Food Minister Abdul Aleem Khan, the Pakistan Flour Mills Association (PFMA) announced on Tuesday to end their strike continued for the last two days.
Dialogues between the flour millers and the Punjab food secretary remained inconclusive on Monday to convince the millers to call off their strike after which the Pakistan Flour Mills Association (PFMA) announced to continue its strike till acceptance of
Rejecting the offer of talks by Punjab government, Pakistan Flour Mills Association (PFMA) has announced that it is shutting down is operations from today for an "indefinite" period.
Flour millers of Punjab, Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have announced to shut down their operations from Monday as a protest against the Punjab food department and district administrations raiding the mills' godowns under the pretext of anti-hoarding
The Punjab government has formed a 'working group' to formulate recommendations for short and long term policy to make the province self-sufficient in food sector.
The ministries of commerce and national food security & research (MNFS&R) have made it clear that there is no ban on exports of rice from Pakistan as the country has sufficient stocks of the commodity.
Rice Exporters Association of Pakistan (REAP) reacting to information of a ban on export of all edible items by Pakistan, has urged the Ministry of National Food Security & Research (MNFS&R) not to apply this ban on rice exports.